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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Has anyone come across this weird situation?

Our road has two names. But only one appears on Google Maps.

All houses on one side officially have one address. All houses on the other officially have a different address.

Delivery firms keep getting confused, Deliveroo too.
Net effect: anyone relying on GM/Android for directions can't find the houses on Road A side of our road.

(It's a silly situation brought about by a bad decision made by the original developers. But it's too well established and affects too many addresses to change naming now.)
Two questions, really...

1. Has anyone seen examples of Google Maps labelling a road with two different names, or is that impossible?

2. Any suggestions as to how to get a HUMAN inside Google to look at this? Their "suggest changes" function on Google Maps is very limited.
(Added: of course IF there's a section for comments on an order form, I add a note. But many websites don't allow it.)

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
5 Feb
What a ridiculously irresponsible article!

Yes, a single dose of vaccine undeniably provides *some* protection.

But there's no way that single dose represents "mission accomplished" when it comes to the vaccination programme - people *need* their second dose too.
Problem is, the more that high-profile articles such as this one take the Government propaganda position that "one jab = vaccinated", the less pressure there will be to deliver the second dose on schedule.

To repeat: one dose IS better than nothing. Definitely. But not the end.
And the snag is, a lot of the good work of the vaccine could be undone if people relax too far too fast - which is always the danger when they're faced with articles like this.

We need realism rather than optimism at this point. We've had far too many instances of the latter.
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2 Feb
Occasionally, the Express has something useful to say about Brexit (even if it puts massive spin on it)...

Here's a key story that hasn't gained attention anywhere else: the UK Government have made over 100,000 changes to imported EU laws.

express.co.uk/news/politics/…
That will presumably have been done, in most cases, without Parliament's knowledge or consent, because the "transcription" mechanism only requires oversight if the changes are deemed significant.

But that's how-long-is-a-piece-of-string territory.
As well as burying all sorts of nasty changes waiting to trip people up (a few examples in the article) this opaque and secretive process makes it harder to unpick the effects of Brexit, because nobody in the world will have any idea of what all those 100,000 changes are.
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29 Jan
Well, what do you know... the EU's contract with AstraZenica appears to contain a clause that includes the UK within the definition of the locations AZ agreed to use to manufacture vaccines for the EU market.

No wonder they're peeved!
That doesn't mean they're wholly in the right - only lawyers and those who have seen both the UK and EU contracts will be able to determine that - but it seems at the very least they've been unfairly hit by a string of vile jingoistic articles in the British press in recent daysz
The hole AZ has dug for itself seems to go even deeper. See the below...

(Presumably the Tories were cowering behind NDAs and their attempt to drive domestic public opinion entirely against the EU.)
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27 Jan
Here's a puzzle...

How can over 7 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, and yet only 80% of over 80s have been vaccinated and letters are just going out to the over 70s?

That doesn't readily square with the demographics of the UK?
ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peop…
Even if we assume all age groups 75+ have seen the same 80% takeup, that leaves a couple of million doses unaccounted for.

Does that mean that significant numbers of over 70s have already been vaccinated? Or have various other groups got in ahead?
I'm not suggesting the figures are *wrong*, but it would be good to have more transparency into who got what.

(Not just in terms of age groups, but how many of each vaccine have been given.)
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26 Jan
Deaths with COVID-19 in the UK have doubled since 7 November 2020.

80 days ago, the figure stood at 50,063.

Yes, 80 days ago, the UK had only seen HALF the current number of deaths.

Now think back to the dither and delays and tier fiascos and weak November lockdown and Xmas.
To put it another way...

It took Boris Johnson 250 days to preside over the first 50,000 deaths of people with COVID-19.

It only took a further 80 days of his oversight for another 50,000 to die.
Does that look like the kind of pattern you'd expect to see from someone who'd "done everything they could" and who'd "learned the lessons" of the first wave of the pandemic?

Or does it look more like that of an arsonist tipping petrol on the flames?
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24 Jan
Mastercard is raising its fees on EU purchases made by holders of UK credit cards from 0.3% to 1.5%.

Another Brexit dividend, because we no longer fall under the EU-wide Interchange Fee Regulation that used to cap the fee at 0.3%.

on.ft.com/2KIM3rE
The amazing thing is, we have the EU to thank for it rising only to 1.5%, because they negotiated a lower cap for non-EU credit cards used in the EU.

Without that EU-brokered cap (which lasts 5 years and 6 months) we would face paying even more again.

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
It's a known Brexit issue that was explicitly acknowledged by the UK Government in November 2018 when it set out the new law "Interchange Fee (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018"

They talk about it in the notes accompanying the statutory instrument.
gov.uk/government/pub…
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