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Tsunami hits Tonga after giant volcano eruption. New Zealand issues tsunami warning.
Few details at the moment but hopefully no casualties as warnings seem to have been effective.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/15/tonga-tsunami-warning-as-volcano-erupts-at-sea
Sajid Javid has ordered the NHS to pay £270 million to private hospitals to be on stand by in case they are needed in the next 3 months. That is your tax money.
Australia is exercising its right to police its borders. Farage is upset! I think it has been very badly handled but he probably tried to avoid the rules and use his money to influence in his favour. Out of interest does this mean the entire England cricket team and support staff were vaccinated?
The current crisis in the Tory Party is causing a major schism with its Scottish Party. Sleaze-Dogg reverted to type talking about taking the king’s shilling (we have had neither for rather a long time), when criticising the Scottish Tory Leader for being a lightweight when Douglas Ross said he thought Johnson should resign. Only one of the 6 Scottish Tory MP’s and 31MSP’s has come out in support of Johnson.
Interested to see how the Mail, Telegraph and Sun react to the circus. They hope to steer political views via there journalists. But they also are aware of the need to boost sales of their rags. The Telegraph will probably continue to support the unacceptable. The Mail will be looking at public opinion (especially middle class woman) and to be honest no one cares what the Sun thinks anymore now it has stopped reluctantly pedalling porn (Look at its recent front pages!??!!).
That was not an apology for his actions. “I believed implicitly that this was a work event”. He washer for 25 minutes and presumably saw no work being done., He apologised on your behalf for misunderstanding him. He also apologised for being caught not doing anything wrong unless Sue Gray finds out and lets him know what it is that he hasn’t done and knows nothing about.
I am looking forward to this – hopefully with Angela Rayner rather than Keir Hardy. Just seen it is Keir Starmer, I hope he does better.
What will Johnson’s tactic be? Outright denial maybe difficult. He can defer to Sue Gray’s investigation – but we know that the question will then be ‘why ask her where you were?. He could apologise – but the implications of this are too big as that would acknowledge that he lied to Parliament. Will the Speaker let him get away with obscurification and lying again?
Just read https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/12/net-zero-climate-strategy-uk-government-sued.
Many people in the world have never seen the life blood of our planet. Out of sight, out of mind may apply to them, but the importance of our oceans is a rather neglected aspect of our global environment. CO2 content of the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect grab the headlines. But p17 of the Guardian reports the sixth consecutive year of hottest temperatures for oceans. Should be Front page of all papers as the Partygate thing will be forgotten by summer.
A study by Bristol Uni has shown that mask wearing and distance are the best protection. The virus loses its potency as it dries out. Thus high humidity increases the risk of infection. In dry offices it can lose 50% of infectivity in 5 seconds. After 20 minutes the virus infectivity has dropped to 10%.