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Ireland's Foreign Minister speaking on Sunday; Mr Coveney told Sky News: “If you want to use sporting parlance, this is move week. We have got to make big progress this week, hopefully we have got to get the big issues resolved in principle this week.” He also repeated that any trade deal would not be approved by the EU unless Mr Johnson dropped his threat, contained in his internal market bill, to break commitments on Northern Ireland in his withdrawal treaty. Definitely panicing.

Of course it is reasonable, but it is hardly ground breaking or worthy of stringing out the Union Jack bunting.

We have signed "Memoranda of Understanding" to maintain access based on existing quotas, to review the quotas annually, and to share information on management of fish stocks and relevant advances in technology. No biggy, just maintaining the status quo.

Britain's Got Talent X Factor The Voice I'm a Celebrity...... Anything on ITV2. ( I would add ITVbe but the title of the thread does state 'popular' ).

Just don't be first in the queue for it, wait until at least version x.2 and somebody else has discovered the bugs.

The Governor of Michigan announces a new 3 week restriction on group meetings and activities, in response Whitehouse spokeman Dr Scott Atlas tells people to "rise up and resist" the new measures. ( It took the US 6 days to add the latest 1million cases ).

If only one of them had been on the scene, then he would have been up around the 180 England caps mark.

And you also have the issue of who's rules and regulations are enforced, the Internet by definition operates outside normal national boundaries. That is unless you introduce a local version of the Great Firewall of China, or a similarly restrictive route of access to the Web, as countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran have done, and as Russia is attempting to do.

And it is easy to completely ignore the reality of how people are influenced, and potentially manipulated, by their Social Media interactions, and how much Social Media has become an integral, almost organically intertwined, part of human existence. The clue is in the term 'Influencer'. If it wasn't effective, the Politicos wouldn't expend so much time and money on it.

So when a religious leader / influencer says that vaccination is a CIA plot it isn't being 'forced' on his followers ? When Trump, as the "Leader of the Free World", says that bleach is a "cure" for CoViD, everybody is expected to question and double-check what he is saying ? People exploit positions of influence. Just look at the number of senior Republican legislators who follow, support, and promote Q-Anon.

If only Redmond showed more willingness to do so.

Cheers Crabby, and best wishes to you and yours.

Chaos

They give the impression that they are working strictly off a script, they certainly don't come across as understanding health matters, and the IT is at best flakey. If this is what it is like now, how bad was it when first launched ?

When the second call came in, as I was talking to the first, the second caller asked me to check with the first whether that call ( the first ) was the 7-day check, and the first caller said it was, so the second one then said that that was also her purpose and signed off.

Do you think Carrie had her Princess Diana "There are 3 of us in this marriage" moment ?

But why 2 calls for the same reason, from different people at the same time ? Apart from that, they are continually giving the wrong guidance - as a positive test, I have to isolate for 10 days from the first symptom, but every caller tells me it's 14 days, which is the guideline for potential 'contact's, and when I questioned what they were saying, they admitted it is 10 days. When they called my son a couple of days ago, he was also a positive test rather than a potential 'contact', they told him 14 days, and when he tried to correct the caller it was escalated as his being uncooperative; 15 minutes later the caller got back in contact to say that he had referred it up to his supervisor and she had had to double check to find out what the rules are.

Aintree Iron

There's only been 1 fraud in this election, and he's the incumbent.

2 "7 day check" calls to me today, on different phones, at the same time. If that isn't target chasing, I don't know what is.

This is from CNN's coverage of the comings and goings at No10; "It also led to some No 10 staff wondering if this indicates a broader loosening of the Vote Leave grip on Johnson. "I think something bigger is going on with the EU deal," said one Downing Street insider, referencing the ongoing Brexit negotiations which are approaching their end. The insider suggested a concession from London might be on the cards. The UK government is still locked in talks with Brussels with less than two months before the scheduled conclusion of the Brexit transition period on December 31, 2020. As things stand on Brexit, a concession from London would be the simplest route to a breakthrough that would lead to a deal."

The Deputy Director of CISA was fired yesterday, the Director expects to go this weekend.

I think there may be quite a few constitutional lawyers looking to pad out their bank balances in the next couple of weeks.