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[Stanley]

And possibly damaging for Trump.... I certainly hope so.

[Tripps]

Only in Britain can you be sent to prison for not having a television licence and then - when you are in prison you can watch television without a licence.

[Stanley]

I think that is possibly a perfect example of a paradox......

[Tizer]

And you can probably have you're cocaine etc delivered by drone from Drugs2U!

[Tripps]

Is it the sub-editor's day off?

[Stanley]

You're being Picky David

[Tizer]

The Daily Telegraph front page today has a small headline saying `Britain facing worst flu season on record'.
Perhaps the Telegraph's own records don't go back as far as the terrible 1918 influenza pandemic, or even the 1957/58 Tokyo flu and 1968/69 Hong Kong flu (In 1970 I did a research project on the latter two viruses).

[Stanley]

Thanks for flagging that piece of bad editing up Peter. Is Tokyo Flu what we called Asian Flu at the time? I remember having it and I thought I was dying. I never called an ordinary cold flu after that, they are entirely different beasts!

[Tizer]

Yes, it's a bit confusing because it originated in Southern China but came to the notice of the West when schools suddenly had to shut down in Tokyo. The illness was therefore called Asian Flu but the actual virus was isolated in Tokyo and was then officially designated as `A/Tokyo'. I had it too and remember lying in bed and being so hot and febrile that I was hallucinating.

[Stanley]

Thanks Peter....

[Tripps]

Sound of a penny dropping. . . .


"Sir Keir Starmer challenged opposition critics with a promise to double down on net zero as he admitted the “consensus is gone” on climate change in a speech at the UN’s Cop30 summit. The Prime Minister staunchly defended his Government’s clean energy agenda, but conceded unity on “science that is unequivocal” has splintered since the Paris Accord a decade ago."