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Not really to do with the covid-19 issue, but showing deeper issues. During that briefing, in response to a question he said something along the lines of 'and unlike after the recession of 2008, we really want to help the poorer, less-well off people'. Quite revealing I thought.

His exact words: "We now need to stress that anyone who can’t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work. And we want it to be safe for you to get to work. So you should avoid public transport if at all possible – because we...

He did annoy me in his press briefing last week when he kept saying things like 'we've done fantastically well, and haven't seen the issues that we saw so graphically in other countries' and so on. When quite clearly we have seen as many / more deaths than other countries.

They are very effective at simple sloganeering. Not so good at actually getting the correct information and consistent message across - just witness BJ with his 'It's vital you stay at home on Sunday.....I'm hoping to see my Mum' type contradictions - amongst others.

Number of new cases up by a smaller percentage than tests increase. A hundred down on 700 or so is quite a considerable percentage drop - but it's the trend that's important. It's clear that that the hospital deaths peaked on 8 April, and they now have figures showing care home deaths peaking...

Avoided answering the question 'If we had so much spare capacity in ICU beds, why have so many people still died?' by relating it to the 'can't compare with other countries' - when the question wasn't about comparisons, but our own capacities.

My sister had the fever symptoms for a week, started recovering, then had the breathlessness - which all got quite worrying. She avoided the hospital, and is recovering. But around 12 days after the recovery period began (ie: when we stopped being too worried) she still has trouble talking to...

Which is frightening in itself.

Not that I'm aware of. I work for a local authority and we've often been in situations where the media or campaigns put things out there for the public that are entirely misleading - and I've often wanted to do this sort of 'correction / response'. But in general we shy away from it on the...

And related to the Sunday Times article - but to do with the ventilator challenge https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920

Yes - I agree. And it's online anyway. It's just that we had that great announcement that 'everyone' would be receiving this letter, and then no-one has. Broken promises again - and so when Hancock and others say that there is tons of PPE out there, and it's now getting to the right places -...

Has anyone received the letter from Boris yet? We haven't up here.

We saved no money. There is "no money to fix the roof" - we're borrowing it all, and will have to pay it back. Plenty of information about this, here's one article https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14771

Yes - hate to think what the public sector cuts will be next year.

Can't win really. If we don't buy them now, and another country does - then we'll be asking 'why didn't we buy them in readiness?'