Category: Politics

After a positive start the roll out seems to be faltering. 6 EU states have now got a higher % vaccination than the UK. The map of who has been jabbed is a somewhat familiar one – large urban areas seem to have a lower take up (although locally Glastonbury is relatively low!). So is the correlation with poverty? I suspect it is, and reflects a lack of confidence in government. However there are anomalies with Knightsbridge, Belgarvia and Hyde Park only having 56% take up of first dose. Areas with large proportions of young (cities) are also lower in take up.

So the government thinks this years teacher assessed grades are viable enough to enrol more students into medical school. I hope this is not a measure wrought out of expediency – medical care is too important for that.

A study commissioned by the FA found 359 accounts on twitter with explicitly racist abuse. Action taken – zero – update 11 arrests made . Thompson-Herah’s account was taken down because she may have broken copyright rules for olympic sponsors by sending clips of herself wining the gold medal to friends.

Beyond the absurdity of the detail here is the fact that accounts can be taken down rapidly if financial interests are involved, but not racist abuse.

I know that the young did not vote for the nasty party, but this government seems vindictive. Young at University have been put under house arrest earlier in the pandemic, have had to pay top whack for an experience that was far from what they signed up for. Those most likely to lose their jobs are … the young. Education has been disrupted and the best that Williamson can come up with is free Latin Lessons for a few. Now they are being blamed for any future surge in infections because they have been reluctant to get vaccinated.

Macron stated, in response to the cry of liberty on the streets, “What is your freedom worth if you say to me ‘I do not want to be vaccinated’, but tomorrow you infect your fathers mother or me”.