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French Covid thread The stats are encouraging – cases down; deaths down; hospital patients down; intensive care slightly up – but the faster-moving variants are still moving fast. The govt
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French Covid thread. Depending on your viewpoint, the figures for the last week are “encouraging” (the government) or “misleadingly stable” (epidemiologists). Average daily cases and deaths fell for the first
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New French vaccine thread…The French programme is speeding up. Hooray. Without admitting they were ever slow, the French government says it can go faster. PM Jean Castex announced last night
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Something has been bugging me for days about the French Covid vaccination programme. The published figures don’t add up. They don’t explain why France has local shortages of vaccines and
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Looking at juicy bits of the EU-AstraZeneca contract, it seems to me that AZ emerge as the main culprit in this miserable dispute. They promised EU to use UK factories
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Weekly French Covid thread. It is probable that France will be placed in a 3rd lockdown in a few days. With the mood of the country turning sour – only
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Time for another French Covid thread. The key stats– cases, deaths, acute cases and hospital population – are still climbing but not exploding. Cases are averaging 18,907 a day compared
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Another Thursday, another French government, Covid press conference - and another turn of the screw? Yes, it seems so. Not a Third Lockdown (yet) but an expansion of the 8pm
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Scoop...Britain faces dearer electricity and occasional black-outs if it bans EU fishing boats from its waters after 2026. This de facto power over the UK power market is handed to
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MORE fish. Since my Boxing Day fish thread attracted great attention – and some controversy – I thought I’d try to clear up one or two disputed points. I would
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Fish thread. Having read the Brexit deal, I believe B. Johnson misled the nation on Thurs when he said Britain could catch “all the fish that it wants ” in
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Why was France so anxious about a fast-spreading mutant virus just across the straits of Dover? Maybe the French overreacted. Maybe they didn’t. But France has something to protect. Its
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