I think this situation has become divisive to the extent that we are no longer in a position of arguing two sides of the same coin. I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It keeps being portrayed as two sides of the same coin - namely yet another divide between the far-left and the far-right...

The more folk get antsy about restrictions, the longer this goes on. The impatient are only hurting themselves. Except there's a bit of dishonesty about how long these restrictions are going to be around for. We've put everything on hold for a vaccine, without any guarantee as to when that will be ...

Maybe it’s to do with the upcoming seasonal move-everything-around-a-thon. There’s usually a burst in confusion (if not demand) with that. I don't know about others, but I have mostly stopped following the news about Covid. I'm just sick of it. It's always the same stuff on a loop, I'm honestly not ...

The underrated Mario 35 release is Super Mario All Stars (1993) on Switch-SNES. I’ve spent so long playing the originals that I’d forgotten how much better that remake was.

It’s basically the opposite of a mock, in that it looks shite but little glimmers of high production standards accidentally slip through.

My suspicion is that we will see rapidly changing attitudes to locking down society now there isn't a furlough scheme to keep things ticking over. In some ways, this is a good thing. The economy has always needed to be balanced against the health benefits of locking down, and too many people seem di...

M&S rail station stores have been closed until a couple of weeks ago. I’m guessing on the same basis, but I’d have thought in the last couple of months there’d be enough traffic to survive...

I've never really got how Premier Inn has ended up commanding such a premium price over Travelodge. Travelodge spent years pushing the idea of a no-frills experience, to the extent of advertising explaining that other hotel chains fold your toilet paper into a triangle and charge you for it. That h...

My observation is that many of the places that were busy before the pandemic are now pretty busy again, and many of the places that were pretty empty are, again, pretty empty. I don't doubt there's been a demand hit, but I suspect a lot of the complaints will come from businesses that were in the la...

The general consensus among my friends/family is to “wait a couple of weeks” before returning so I expect we’ll see a ramping up. With the friends I went with I was amazed how little the places I visited had changed. Haven't seen QR code menus yet, they were everywhere in Amsterdam. For many places ...

So now there’s not enough operating capital to keep the centres open. Fail and having the land bought up cheaply would seem tempting. The outlook for retail may be appalling but it’s not clear what better use there is for the out-of-town sites. Lakeside has a great rail link. I think we’ll see more ...