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    24 hours ago

    King Amenhotep III (‘the Magnificent’) - 14thC BC

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    23 hours ago

    Brave of the photo editors to produce a montage making me think the country is now under attack by mutant beavers.

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    Feb 19
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    Toby, here's the correlation of mobility to implied infection peaks from both deaths & cases. You haven't a leg to stand on, other than pretending that official dates, e.g. Mar23/Jan4 somehow denote the exact point behaviour changed. When they don't. Just give up the madness.

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    Feb 19
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    1) Scrooge McDuck swimming pool scenario 2) Big barge filled with vaccines, moored off French coast, banner on side saying 'Still think they don't work, Emmanuel?' 3) Pillow fight between Whitty and Vallance, but with vaccines.

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    Feb 19
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    This but with vials of vaccine?

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  6. Feb 19

    On what basis would you oppose this?! What are your plans for the vaccines otherwise?

    84% of Britons support Boris Johnson's pledge to donate spare doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to poorer countries once the UK’s vaccination programme is complete 
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    Feb 19
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    So you made a valid point that a PCR positive doesn't always mean you're infected or infectious now. But then made a nonsensical claim that this explained why cases were going up but hospitalisations weren't.

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    Feb 18

    Went to buy the paper and the newsagent asked why I was buying 2 and I said (excited), I work there, I’m on the front page. And he looked at me and at the picture and went “dunno about you love but that’s Prince Philip”

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    Feb 18

    I'm planning to build the Devon Canal. Who'd like to invest? 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪

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    Feb 16

    I will refuse

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    Feb 17

    When in 1719 John Woodward FRS and Richard Mead FRS had scientific beef about the best way to treat smallpox, one faction ended up writing an entire comic opera about the other before they fought a duel so pointed QTing doesn't seem too bad in comparison.

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    Feb 17

    Adding one more to the pile of “probably a vaccine effect” charts: this is England cases for the over-80s, expressed as a % of total cases. Having been stubbornly static over the last month, it’s taken a clear turn down in the last week 1/6

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    Feb 17

    Afternoon to everyone listening but mainly this person.....

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    Feb 17

    I expect there is an “interesting” conversation being had this morning in the home of Daily Mail reader Mrs SC from Belfast

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    Feb 17

    ICYMI This chart is probably starting to show the vaccine effects, admission falls for those age groups that have had the vaccine is faster (and accelerating?) than those groups that haven’t.

    Well I guess its no surprise to see this chart progressing as it is having see the deaths cross over chart earlier. The fall away off a 4% trend especially in the 85+ category is getting louder and louder. Vaccine seems to be working lads.....
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    Feb 16

    My bit on the latest Meghan and Harry news, and the newspapers and commentators who simply can’t handle it

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    Feb 15

    You know what, after several days of dealing with a backlash on here based upon the schools debate, I've had enough. Scientists are humans. Please remember this. And just to prove it, here's a goat on a skateboard:

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    Feb 16

    Crossover Klaxon 🚨

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  19. Feb 16

    Looking forward to the Department of Health telling me I failed woodwork.

    Well this is interesting. Email from DHSC: prioritisation for the vaccine will be partly handled by an algorithm
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    Feb 16

    Well this is interesting. Email from DHSC: prioritisation for the vaccine will be partly handled by an algorithm

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