Perhaps this leopard will change his spots? The Daily Mail certainly appears to be doing so.
Their new editor Geordie Greig is a staunch Remainer and has confirmed that on Radio 4 and that he is very much pro Europe and the EU.
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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Their new editor Geordie Greig is a staunch Remainer and has confirmed that on Radio 4 and that he is very much pro Europe and the EU.
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I don't buy into anyone's conspiracy theory, I can create my own when necessary.
Like Van Tan is a Mossad agent.
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How much immunity have you built after six weeks? With only one vaccination.
Still unknown, isn't it?
I suspect some might hope for the poacher-turned-gamekeeper effect but I don't believe it in this case.
Once faeces, always faeces.
BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm said Sunday.
The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British-Swedish company had originally aimed for, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and the EU last week.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said after a call with seven vaccine makers Sunday that AstraZeneca will also begin deliveries one week sooner than scheduled and expand its manufacturing capacity in Europe.
The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British-Swedish company had originally aimed for, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and the EU last week.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said after a call with seven vaccine makers Sunday that AstraZeneca will also begin deliveries one week sooner than scheduled and expand its manufacturing capacity in Europe.
Success of vaccine rollout pushes Tories ahead of Labour in the polls
Boris Johnson moves ahead of Keir Starmer as the person seen as the best prime minister
www.theguardian.com
Seems most folk at moment seem to think Vaccine programme is doing well. And that's the Guardian...
If you want a fair guide has to how public are seeing things... Read OG and Flecc's posts..... Then take the inverse.. But no doubt public, along with JVT, PV and CW are wrong.
Reminds me of a lecturer friend who was once moaning at students failing his exams..
"It's not my exams it's the students that are all useless"..
mmm. Time for some self reflection OG.
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600,000 vaccinations completed in one day and accelerating all the time. A pledge to share surplus vaccine with our EU friends in Ireland. The extended interval between first and second vaccination set to reduce as capacity to inject increases. For once, the U.K. has got something spectacularly right. It doesn’t happen often, but it has on this occasion.
The EU can be forgiven for their unfortunate behaviour over the weekend. It has led to worldwide condemnation, but they panicked and who can blame them. The world is in a precarious position.
We need to all get behind the vaccination effort and make sure it’s a success everywhere. This isn’t a contest to be won by a single country. It can only be won once everyone is protected.
Popping your head up from behind the sofa and lobbing a hand-grenade of mis-information and spiteful criticism into the mix is not acceptable.
We have some virus quislings on this thread and they have the potential to cause people a fatal injury.
The EU can be forgiven for their unfortunate behaviour over the weekend. It has led to worldwide condemnation, but they panicked and who can blame them. The world is in a precarious position.
We need to all get behind the vaccination effort and make sure it’s a success everywhere. This isn’t a contest to be won by a single country. It can only be won once everyone is protected.
Popping your head up from behind the sofa and lobbing a hand-grenade of mis-information and spiteful criticism into the mix is not acceptable.
We have some virus quislings on this thread and they have the potential to cause people a fatal injury.
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It's welcome news to the chief executive of leading care home group MHA, Sam Monaghan, who tells Radio 4's Today programme that 88% of his residents had had their first dose of the jab as of Friday.
However, he says the government's decision to delay giving people their second dose - in favour of using supplies to give the first dose to as many people as possible - has been "difficult" for residents.
Monaghan says he wants care home residents to get second doses more quickly so that they can be reunited with their loved ones. "People have been separated for such a long time," he adds.
"I think the other thing that we need from government is some clarity around what actually is possible when people have had both doses of the vaccination," he says, asking whether more care home visits will be allowed once residents have had a full vaccine.
I think the big unknown is how transmissible the virus is in people who are vaccinated. The care home residents may have full protection from the affects of the disease via vaccination, but there is little data to determine if they could pass it on to visitors. The visitors could then take it away and pass it on.
It's welcome news to the chief executive of leading care home group MHA, Sam Monaghan, who tells Radio 4's Today programme that 88% of his residents had had their first dose of the jab as of Friday.
However, he says the government's decision to delay giving people their second dose - in favour of using supplies to give the first dose to as many people as possible - has been "difficult" for residents.
Monaghan says he wants care home residents to get second doses more quickly so that they can be reunited with their loved ones. "People have been separated for such a long time," he adds.
"I think the other thing that we need from government is some clarity around what actually is possible when people have had both doses of the vaccination," he says, asking whether more care home visits will be allowed once residents have had a full vaccine.
I think the short answer to what is / will possible, is not a great deal more than now until the wider population is vaccinated. When will that be? At this rate, hopefully by the end of summer, I’d guess.
It is what it is, no one wakes up in a morning thinking, great another day of lockdown. No one wants it like this, but we’ve just got to put up with it for a bit longer and crack on.
Better still think for yourself rather than take everything at face value and make excuses for bad decisions
most of what you do is investing, not trading. If you have to pay stamp duty then it's investing. If you don't, then it's trading.
The problem with trading comes from the fact that you play against the pros, whether it's a simple bet on indices or share options. You play either against the market makers or the house and they load their T&Cs to make sure that face they win, tail they don't lose.
I had a close friend who worked for stock brokers Smith New Court who patiently tried to explain to me the vocabulary and how to estimate risks in options. That was at the time when the only programmable spreadsheet was Lotus 123 and he was doing risk modelling in his day time job.
I started with MT's wave of privatisation, BT, BG, water, electricity, railtrack, RMG. They were very much safe investments. The IPO price was discounted by the government. Then came the crises of 2008. I got attracted by the fast movement of banking shares and started to learn how to read charts and statistics. I used to spend most of the day looking at the rolling screens and yahoo finance forum. I did OK with bank stocks for a while and eventually, got my fingers burned with RT, NR, RBS and Lloyds shares. I moved my portfolio to funds and stopped spending any more time watching the screens and the yahoo finance forum.
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I still question the wisdom in the first place. If it were, as some sources suggested, actually advantageous to have a longer gap, why would we be planning on reversing down to manufacturer recommended gaps?
No - I am NOT saying it was wrong. I am saying it is still not proved to have been right.
Thinking for yourself is fine, deciding you don't want to be vaccinated same, deciding you do and thinking waiting for 2nd is not a brilliant idea is also fine.
What is not fine is accepting first jab willingly and then spending hours and hundreds of posts explaining how bad an idea it is is not.
You are putting people off doing exactly what you chose to do. At time of your first injection you already knew wait for 2nd would be 12 weeks. Why buy into the regime if its so flawed and then having bought into scheme why make such a fuss.
Either take what's on offer or don't. Simple.
You can't take it and then moan decrying the very system attempting to keep you safe.. Well you can. There is a name for it.
... a response to last Friday's crisis in EU / UK relationships .taken from the Irish Independent
Triggering Article 16 was intended to be a “market information gathering tool” but ended up being a mistake that will have “very serious consequences”, EU Commissioner for Finance Máiréad McGuinness has said.
Ms MsGuinness, speaking on This Week on RTÉ Radio, said that “justified anger” about how Astrazeneca have addressed their vaccine commitment shortfall led to a “rush to get this regulation out” and that “sometimes when these are rushed, the detail is not fully taken onboard”.
“I think if you look back, there was justified anger about Astrazeneca, and how in a very cavalier way last week they said ‘this is tough, but we can’t deliver what we said we could, and in fact you are only going to get less than 30pc of what you thought would flow to you’.
“When we asked at several meetings for details as to what happened and why, there was no information coming. So, there was a decision taken to try and get information from the marketplace, to look back at what happened in December and look forward to the future.
“This was about gathering information and it shouldn’t have happened. This is a mistake with very serious consequences, there is no getting away from that. The intent of this piece of regulation was to gather market information,” the Vice President of the EU Parliament said.
Ms McGuinness said when “the heat is drawn out of this” she hopes that the issues of triggering Article 16 from a border perspective and using it as an information gathering tool will be seen in separate lights.
She also said that the “political reality” of triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol “wasn’t fully understood”.
“We still have to get answers from Astrazeneca because the EU, on behalf of citizens, paid €336m in order to develop a vaccine and get deliveries of certain quantities. And we have not got answers as to why that [shortfall] happened.
“On the wider issue as to how Northern Ireland entered the equation, I’m afraid the political reality of the paragraph wasn’t fully understood. It immediately was when the interventions that came on my behalf and the Taoiseach and many others, and spent the time since this happened trying to resolve these issues”.
McGuinness said the Commission will “reflect internally” on this issue in weeks to come but insisted this mistake will not require Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to consider her position. “I have found her to be an incredibly able leader,” Commissioner McGuinness said.
Triggering Article 16 was intended to be a “market information gathering tool” but ended up being a mistake that will have “very serious consequences”, EU Commissioner for Finance Máiréad McGuinness has said.
Ms MsGuinness, speaking on This Week on RTÉ Radio, said that “justified anger” about how Astrazeneca have addressed their vaccine commitment shortfall led to a “rush to get this regulation out” and that “sometimes when these are rushed, the detail is not fully taken onboard”.
“I think if you look back, there was justified anger about Astrazeneca, and how in a very cavalier way last week they said ‘this is tough, but we can’t deliver what we said we could, and in fact you are only going to get less than 30pc of what you thought would flow to you’.
“When we asked at several meetings for details as to what happened and why, there was no information coming. So, there was a decision taken to try and get information from the marketplace, to look back at what happened in December and look forward to the future.
“This was about gathering information and it shouldn’t have happened. This is a mistake with very serious consequences, there is no getting away from that. The intent of this piece of regulation was to gather market information,” the Vice President of the EU Parliament said.
Ms McGuinness said when “the heat is drawn out of this” she hopes that the issues of triggering Article 16 from a border perspective and using it as an information gathering tool will be seen in separate lights.
She also said that the “political reality” of triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol “wasn’t fully understood”.
“We still have to get answers from Astrazeneca because the EU, on behalf of citizens, paid €336m in order to develop a vaccine and get deliveries of certain quantities. And we have not got answers as to why that [shortfall] happened.
“On the wider issue as to how Northern Ireland entered the equation, I’m afraid the political reality of the paragraph wasn’t fully understood. It immediately was when the interventions that came on my behalf and the Taoiseach and many others, and spent the time since this happened trying to resolve these issues”.
McGuinness said the Commission will “reflect internally” on this issue in weeks to come but insisted this mistake will not require Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to consider her position. “I have found her to be an incredibly able leader,” Commissioner McGuinness said.
And while I am writing I wish you all welcome to Spring in the Celtic Calendar. .. . The first day of February is the pagan feast of Imbolic , now associated with St. Bridgit and is the reverse of Halloween or Samhain as it celebrates new life. Bridgit represents fertility and the new awakening. You will have been hearing the slightly increased birdsong already.
Just for clarity, is this the EU’s threat to trigger Article 16 that you were denying 72 hours ago? Talking heads with no foundation I believe was the sentiment
This could mean you got something wrong! How usual.
Asking for a friend.
Cheers
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Happy Synthetic Spring to you too! I’ll wish you a happy Spring when the real one arrives during March.