Stuart Grove

Happy Man - now on Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@EJSDonald @rainworthgord @NihilistRS @campbellclaret Hence the creative justification. But it was the inability to enable the rebuilding of Iraq that was the real disaster. Few of us foresaw that.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@EJSDonald @rainworthgord @NihilistRS @campbellclaret Perhaps the US relationship overrode Iraq. It was the guarantor of our defence and nuclear capability. Wilson had rightly kept us out of Vietnam at a cost but Blair was caught on the 'good' of deposing Saddam and having pushed the US out a unilateral position had no alternative.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@clausym Good to see it will hopefully be flung into space by the European Space Agency. Nice the UK is part of the action. Hopefully this government won't Brexit that to.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@OneRealJGD @amazon Just make it a business account. Visa allowed.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@NicDeLaMitch That's not what the science ever claimed. It reduces transmission not stop it. Clearly if you can keep the R value below 1 for long enough you can eliminate it. But our government chose not to attempt that back in July.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@AlexFergus0n @PippaCrerar London is not a one off. Nottingham is also a spike centre of infection. We can hope the spikes are not replicated elsewhere and hospitalisation ratios are not lower but very much lower to avoid hospitals maxing out.

Is over reaction better than under reaction?

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@JasonMcWatts @AlexFergus0n @PippaCrerar Another factor is that the most vulnerable - mostly the over 60s - infection rate lags the young (from whom they will mostly catch it) so there is a double lag for ICU & deaths. Hopefully they are the most boosted. Whether this will compensate is moot.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@AlexFergus0n @PippaCrerar Alex - that's a log chart. It shows the rate of increase - not the increase - is decreasing as you would expect as we approach saturation. It's not stabilisation of cases by a long chalk.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@AlexFergus0n @PippaCrerar Same for most of London

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@AlexFergus0n @PippaCrerar I'm inclined to think your plateau can only be achieved by rotating the infection chart by 90 degrees for London. Nationwide a big leap over 100,000 today and Omicron hasn't even really got going in many areas.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

Congratulations Rose winning Strictly last night. Congratulations to the BBC for reminding us how signing includes. Will our PM now follow the rest of the UK and most of the world and now include it in national press conferences too?

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@CyclingLawLDN I cycle through Partridge Green beautiful leafy lanes to/from Shoreham. To think I shared them with this excuse for an humanoid is truly frightening. But how to stop the unstoppable?

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

Nigel Farage today: "All the evidence from South Africa suggests the variant is manageable“. South Africa before yesterday's record 37,000:

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

Possibly if you exclude all those that died. As they are no longer people they don't count. But then neither can you.

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

This is FAKE NEWS: >99.9% of people can overcome coronaviruses with their natural immune system.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@lewicyclists @Layo_GP @Rahario On the other hand around here Lewisham have successfully blocked cyclists from using our pavements with legal and unenforced illegal car parking. Clever eh?

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@clausym @davelowry 'Empty' is a pure HP concept bearing little relationship to how much toner is still fit for printing.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@clausym @davelowry My LaserPro 200 is cat5 connected but still goes for an occasional walk in the dark. I always run empty on multiple cartridges. It moans, but so far, still prints if you hit the OK button sufficient times. Careful to not knowingly upgrade the firmware.

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@clausym E Croydon in under 30 mins then train and you have 30 mins to spare. If it's after 4:30 then you may need to borrow my Brompton 😊

[Stuart Grove @StuartGrove]

@clausym Whereas I do regard riding when the temperature is below 37 (in old English) as more than foolhardy. And I have the spills to prove it!

There is still the E Croydon option...