I work(ed) in two different pubs, and there has been quite a bit of behind-the-scenes work to get ready for re-opening. I've seen guidance for where I work, and looked at internal guidance for another pub where I have friends on the staff. Thread... One place I work at isn't going to open until August atg the earliest - don't expect every pub in the country to open on the 4th July. The other place isn't going to open on the 4th, but a few days later. Opening on a Saturday is a stupid idea, but it wasn't ours.

@lobrowR Some of the earliest eugenicists were cautious, owing to the very limited knowledge of genetics at the time. Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, for example, didn't envisage doing more than handing out fitness certificates for people with good genes. @lobrowR Credit where it's due, they recognised the limits of their understanding. What supplied the political energy, though, for the movement as a whole, was a fear. It is hard to understand its power, because it has disappeared from our collective cultural mind so completely.

I studied the British eugenics movement (there was one - eugenic ideas entered politics from around 1900 until the idea was shown to be inherently dangerous when the Nazis took it up). A thread.
#Eugenics #Dawkins It seems plausible that what 'works' in breeding dogs and horses will work in humans. This overlooks the main problem - no-one is interested in breeding humans with big floppy ears or whatever. The eugenics movement struggled with this problem, and never overcame it.