Paul would like to raise some generic points about the public relations processes in elte sports, not that that should lead us to conclude that any points currently being made by said sports people are to be viewed more sceptically.
I wonder if Paul will develop his generic points and analysis of elite sports public relations processes in the days and weeks ahead.
Would obvs just be one of those things that, right when the three black England players who missed penalties finished commenting on the racial abuse they suffered, Paul's interesting analysis of generic PR processes in elite sports happened also to have run its course.
With only a couple of guys like @GaryLineker and @alanshearer pitching in, now could be a good time @PaulEmbery for you to develop your really fascinating generic points about PR processes involving elite footballers which you have surely only just touched on.
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Go back to the idea of the budget for risky contacts. If you can trim contacts to the amount you want by blocking one country, that's what you do. You don't block all countries with a similar epidemiological characteristic.
Of course the real reason they are picking one country and not another may be political, or just incompetence. But there is a logic to be imposed on it ex post if you want to impose one.
The idea of going to a live theatre event to discuss politics and in particular whether our pandemic policy is good or bad, as cases are rising fast, is kind of curious to me!
'So lots of really interesting stuff happening with the virus, let's talk about it'
[virus spreads throughout the theatre].
'OK let's take a quick poll of those who think we should or should not be holding live in person events...'
Judging by these comments, it seems that the Chair of the HoL Economic Affairs Committee failed understand anything imparted to members in the free, 2 hour briefing that I and another gave them. ft.com/content/60d239…
This for example:
Or this. Why do research on the impact of QE. All you need to do is "ask any youngster". Embarrassing.
'Find peace'😀 Someone on this website certainly does need to find peace.
Come to think of it 'every day chant to yourself 'reasonable people can disagree about complex political questions' is a curious piece of advice given accounts of what went on in No 10 recently.
'I think we should sack The Saj unless we can sack his advisors'
'But reasonable people can disagree about complex political questions.'
That should read ‘a moment’. There have been several policy disasters that he’s helped launder with his continuity of service.
He and others might think 'this is too critical a time for a key person to leave the operation; much better to influence policy for the better within'.
Johnson speech: if we can't reopen now when Summer puts the virus at a disadvantage, when can we reopen? Well, when we have vaccinated everyone. How about that?
And if the idea is to infect everyone, why bother with border controls at all? At least until a variant we don't have is identified. Why pick on international travel to restrict freedom?
Johnson: it's the 73rd birthday of the NHS... and what a fitting moment to launch a surge in virus cases, when we are not sure about the link of cases to long covid, nor the risk of manufacturing new variants in the face of the vaccine.