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Here is some proper modelling from Imperial College London …... https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/ Gist is that without taking precautions, we get 510,000 extra deaths in the next few months, with the peak in June. There are many...

At last a proper numerical analysis from Prof. Ferguson and his team at Imperial College: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/ Complicated, but essentially settles the argument between the mitigation option and the suppression option...

Rather than piecemeal wishlists, we should have a clear view of this out to 2040 and decarbonisation. EVERY line should either get overhead wires (if there is enough traffic to justify it) or get hydrogen / battery hybrid trains. Everything has to change, so why can’t we plan it all now...

Current tally on the petition is 4,086,721 signatures

Petition to Revoke the UK’s Article 50 Notification now stands at 1,155,137 signatures after less than two days.

Petition is at: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

The petition on the UK Parliament website is going very fast indeed. Over 1,000 people per minute are signing the petition and a moment ago it stood at 1,041,287 signatures gathered in less than two days. The rate of people signing has been rising steadily all day.

I don't want to get into the rights and wrongs of why these people are needy and whether any of them are just scam artists. But seriously, the best way to help them is to give to a local homeless charity. That way your gift goes on food, clean clothes and shelter. If you give them money...