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Who, or what, is a Chunkz?

Wales too - in todays updated rules.

Don't forget that Wales has different regulations. As things stand, I think you're fine. We've got a camping trip in Wales next weekend with a bunch of other families which we're hoping will still work out. Edit - scrap that, the rules changed today. Life comes at you fast.

I guess there is always somebody smaller than you getting itchy feet...

(German ambassador to the UK) I imagine BMW are riding the UKs rescue right now, as promised.

I think you're overestimating how much cut-through this sort of thing has outside of niche corners of the Internet. I reckon for every ten random people asked about this subject, one will be furious, one will be elated, one will be neither of those but will find it interesting, three won't really care and four won't care to such an extent that they don't even know that it's happening. And if they did they wouldn't care.

That's basically it - it's similar to ministerial direction. So if a minister wants to do something that directly contradicts civil service advice then they are asked to put in writing to "direct" the civil servant to do it. Meaning it's on the record that it was the politician wot done it and the staff can't be blamed when it goes wrong. This is basically Jonathan Jones doing that for the whole civil service. Or the legal department anyway. I'm sure that @Mandy Lifeboats will be able to correct my layman's interpretation if I have that wrong...

I expect the laughter in Tehran can be heard across the country.

Mum, Dad and three kids going for a walk in the park with the children's grandparents = illegal Me, having the lads from six-a-side football round after the game for a piss-up in the kitchen before they all go back to their own houses = absolutely fine. Perfectly logical.

I'm just glad that there are no other imminent economic catastrophes that the Government has deliberately placed in their in-tray for that time period. I mean, that would be really crazy.

The solution they had from 1998 until 2016 seemed to do a pretty decent job.

I completely agree that politically it's worse for him this way. I was talking morally.

While anything that makes it more likely that he's booted out in eight weeks is A Good Thing, I'd wonder about the journalistic ethics of sitting on that information while tens of thousands of people were dying because it's better timing to use it to promote your book.

Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a far-right MP in Norway. He nominated him in 2018 as well.

No, you didn't. An MP in Norway has nominated him for it.

So, in the name of the Internal Market Act, a minister is able, unscrutinized by Parliament, to override... ...any law at all. That sounds sensible.

Sure, but this isn't the best example of "people in charge" She ran for Congress and got 1.8% of the vote.

I only watched the first half, but from what I saw, I agree. Hopefully it's just a blip.

That would be the logical explanation. The logical solution would seemingly be to send completed tests to a lab with capacity, rather than human beings to a test site in the vicinity of a lab with capacity. Particularly when you consider that you're likely having a test done because you suspect you might have the virus - for anyone relying on public transport, I'm not sure that "travel halfway across the country and back surrounded by other people" is that great an idea for a potentially contagious person.

Then why are some sites still operating? If the issue is lab capacity, how does (e.g) sending Demitri to Telford for the day make his test go through a lab any quicker?

That, and if somebody is sent to Telford for a test, then the sample is still going to be sent to a lab. The test being taken in Telford isn't going to get through a backlog in a lab quicker than a test taken in Croydon.

He's the latest interviewee on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast. And I reckon that of the 100+ episodes I've listened to, he's the first one I've heard who seemingly had nothing to redeem him. And Forde's interviewed Tommy Robinson, Farage, Galloway, Mogg, Paul Staines and any number of other political degenerates. I've come away thinking better of every Tory scumbag he's had on, until him. Hearing Timothy talk about the Villa (Forde's a Forest fan so they were discussing the Cash transfer) made my skin crawl. I'd highly recommend the podcast in general though. An excellent way to leave one's political bubble.

And this feels like pretty bad news as well.

I'd definitely recommend listening to todays - but feel free to just skip to around 25 minutes.