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We may not be talking about the same thing. Under the EU's contract with AZ, AZ warranted that it had no obligation, contractual or otherwise, that would conflict with or impede fulfilment of the EU's contract - but it seems it did conflict with the UK's contract...

The UK lead in getting vaccines was because he gazumped the EU's deal with Astra Zeneca. (I hope the Covid inquiry might look at what inducements were involved.)

Evidence of some benefit from some trials, but not from other trials, so essentially no certain evidence to justify taking a medicine with possible side-effects like Abdominal pain; abnormal sensation in eye; anaemia; appetite decreased; arthralgia; asthenia; asthma exacerbated; coma...

The media are flogging around like a dead horse

That was ivermectin (and Hydroxychloroquine). Advocates still claim evidence that they reduced effects (or speeded up recovery). It was usually anti-vax conspiracists that reckon it was better to take untested horse medicine. Any likelihood of general public acceptance was probably killed off...

This could go in other threads but it's a Conservative survey - of party members of different parties. (Peston showed some of the results.) What is the most important quality in a leader? Tory members (and Reform) went for a strong leader, as in “Britain needs strong leaders who are prepared...

Hey, you're talking about "Northern Galilee"... Uri Tzafon, named for a biblical verse literally meaning “awaken, O North,” was founded in late March with the goal of demanding not only war and reoccupation but also Israeli civilian settlements in southern Lebanon. The group, which has amassed...

Bomb innocent civilians, destroy homes, then wonder why there are "terrorists", in order to justify bombing more innocent civilians and destroy homes.

So long as he's not relying on an invasion of the Falklands to regain popularity.

My take on Hamas? Promoted by your hero Netanyahu to weaken the PLO who wanted peace. He wanted this. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

North West MPs prominent in seeking to address the problem of the pension credit threshold... "That this House notes that the current threshold of pension support to open the gate way of winter fuel allowance is too low; further notes the need to change the cliff-edge nature of the pension...

What, 9 years after the event? Literally after the event.

That bit near the end, "We are (more) developed than them", encapsulates some of the arrogance (if not racism) of early Zionists, who thought the Arab population would be grateful for the economic advantages of having Jews in charge. As we have some new pro Israeli posters who missed the...

Lest we forget. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/boris-johnson-security-evgeny-lebedev-perugia-party

I hope that's a spoof! "The kids I was in mental institutions with...."

That atrocity began by trying to displace Jews (get them to leave) before it turned to stopping them leaving, then to killing them.

We're not selling arms to the people committing genocide elsewhere.

How does this sound as a summary of what the Palestinians might be thinking? "The total annihilation of Israel is the only way to achieve lasting peace in the region, as the Israeli extremists will.not desist until they have fully destroyed the Palestinians." Now you carefully said the...

It's all coming out about Churchill's freebies! He did like his yacht holidays.

Is it inevitable that Vladimir Weiss will score against his old club? I'm still surprised he didn't do better with us, after a stunning performance v Barca in the Joan Gamper Trophy game at the Nou Camp.