It's incredible too me that 18 months in to this pandemic so many businesses still do not understand the need for ventilation.
Fucking see it all the time. Tables wiped, visors on, hand wash by the door - all the things which we know don't make much difference. And then they close the windows and doors.
I don't even really blame the businesses. It's the fault of government for failing to batter home the message of hope this thing works dynamically - changing with our understanding of it.
It's not even a complex message: inside bad, outside good, the more ventilation the better. A child could understand. And yet we have somehow failed to communicate it.
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Really depressed to see so many people act like a few yobs tweeting racist abuse define England, either as a country or as supporters. Please stop it. It's inaccurate and you do their work for them.
They're just tiny little angry bellends, with tiny little angry bellend levels of influence. They're getting smashed down out there. And drowned out - by those supporting the players.
They've accomplished nothing, while the team just reached the final of the Euros. The reason the racists are angry is not because they're winning. It's because they realise they're sliding headlong into irrelevance.
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Here are some of the key provisions. The bill makes it an offence to "knowingly arrive in the UK without a valid entry clearance",
potentially criminalising all asylum seekers arriving via an irregular route.
It allows immigration officers to arrest people on boats when they have reached Britain’s territorial waters.
The policing bill, which silences protests, passed third reading last night. In case anyone wants to remind themselves of Boris Johnson's 'libertarian instincts' independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
I'm not a libertarian. It has a simplistic assessment of the state and a naive view of the market. But libertarianism is a proud, coherent, principled tradition of political thought.
There are libertarians who still stand up for unpopular freedoms, like protest, drug legalisation and free movement. They do exist. But not in this government.
I'm starting to emotionally prepare myself for a winter lock-down.
The fact that I have to do that makes me incandescent with rage. But it would be silly not to countenance it. They've clearly learned nothing. They have no sense of caution or sense. We're behaving in a way that invites further variants.
And a quick reminder: they could soon have been in a position to responsibly lift the remaining domestic restrictions if they'd controlled the fucking border. But they didn't. And now we are where we are.