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Does it really need spelling out? He shouldn't be sacked because he broke lockdown, he should be sacked because he's part of the senior government team responsible for designing and enforcing the lockdown rules.

Still 'whataboutery'. Back to what matters, the Health Secretary and AG amongst others have defended the actions of Cummings, I haven't seen them defend the actions of these photographers

Yes, many people have done stuff they shouldn't, and they have been publicly called out, told off and shamed for doing this - most prominently by this very government all of whom are now defending Cummings

Difference with Mandelson was that he was an MP, accountable to his constituents and to parliament. Who is Cummings accountable to?

So when Cummings does go, those public statements - which all stand in contrast to their press briefings - are going to look pretty misjudged. There's a lot of people there who are going to lose quite a bit of credit for their handling of the coronavirus crisis. Boris, of course, has given...

First reaction is to say, no, he won't go, they'll brazen it out.. But this doesn't feel like a Westminster bubble type of scandal. The public are really, REALLY, annoyed by this. It's very hard to get over that because the papers never like going against public opinion. Cummings is the kind...

The Sun is pro centre right, as long as they've got Tories or Tory-lite Labour they're happy, with a nice side of brexit stuff for good measure. Mail is a bit different, they're dyed in the wool Tories and assume all their readers are already. Instead their editorial support is for factions...

The other thing with Boris is that the guy who's up at PMQs is exactly what we expected him to be, this can't be surprising to those of us who voted for him or those of us who didn't. So I doubt it moves the needle much. May was surprisingly bad at being PM, by contrast, I assume most of us...

Ordinarily - yeah, few. We've all been very tuned in during the Brexit process and this heightened political involvement of the masses will continue for a while, but of course it will fade. Nevertheless, if there is a big discrepancy between the relative performances of the two leaders, that...

I believe it is the common view we have significantly underestimated counts. I haven't seen the latest figures you reference but under-the-average mortality is to be expected if we're all lockdowned, i.e. fewer accidents, fewer infections etc - which would logically mean an even greater...

1. Ideology doesn't win elections, appearing to be competent wins elections. 2. Whether or not someone appears to be competent is almost entirely decided by the media 3. The media will usually decide if someone is competent based on how close they are to the centre-right 'norm' - but this can...

But if you do an arrangement like this it should be designed so that Crawley don't need to employ ageing journeymen, rather than taking places of their youngsters

It depends how you count them, certainly the number of excess deaths in carehomes is way higher than the 'official' figures - as they aren't bothering to run many tests in care homes, and if there isn't a test it isn't an official covid death. Can't say what other countries are doing in that...

Ah, Mr Littlejohn. Master of the hypocritical statement: His opening lines, copied below exactly as he has written them, could so easily be turned straight back towards him: "With depressing predictability, it's politics as usual again. The temporary 'we're all in this together' truce didn't...

Absolutely they would have cause for grievance, but if the option is play no games and get relegated, or play at neutral grounds, they would only have one choice. So clearly they still see null and void as on the table.

But clearly 'no relegation' has to be on the table, otherwise Villa and Bournemouth would not be rejecting proposals to play the games. They have to see an end game where the season is declared null and void. For us, it is a hypothetical risk. Null and void confirms our staying up, but if no...

Well fine, yeah, agree with you. In which case I'm pretty annoyed at Barber and our board for stating that they want to finish the season

Let's not imagine this is anything other than self interest. Clubs just outside the relegation zone want the season binned off regardless, don't want to take any risks. Clubs in the relegation zone want the season cancelled, start again next year, clubs in the promotion spots want the season...

Seems unlikely, more probably false-negatives, the antibody tests are very new of course. But if someone genuinely doesn't have antibodies, they won't be immune to the virus, so those people shouldn't be accounted for in the 'herd immunity' statistics anyway. We also don't know that much about...

Yeah, still quite a small number isn't it. If 4-7% getting infected means our hospitals are completely at capacity, imagine what 40-70% infection rate would have looked like. So if we can somehow balance this out with 5% infected every month, running our hospitals close to capacity but not...