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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The current criteria for qualifying for an NHS winter COVID vaccine are far stricter than the criteria for the NHS flu vaccine.

If you are asthmatic, you can easily be considered vulnerable enough to need the flu vaccine, but still not qualify for the COVID vaccine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yes, they are offered for free. If you are elderly, pregnant, immunosuppressed, live/care for vulnerable people, or have a variety of other health conditions including asthma, you get offered a free flu jab every autumn on the NHS .

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/flu-influenza-vaccine/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

3 July 1979: CIA initiates Operation Cyclone, financing the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.

25 December 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1989: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1992: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapses; start of the Afghan Civil War.

1992: Operation Cyclone ends, after funneling thousands of tons of weaponry worth several billion US dollars to militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties.

1994: Emergence of the Taliban.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I mean I'm not really a fan myself, but it can't all be alternating BBC and Guardian stories.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Asian hornets have caused havoc in France, where they have a stronghold, and have decimated honeybee populations... The Asian hornets first came to Europe in 2004 when they were spotted in France, and it is thought they were accidentally transported in cargo from Asia. They rapidly spread across western Europe and have crossed the Channel to Britain, probably also in cargo... Once they establish permanent populations they are almost impossible to stop."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's not about days per year. Children go to school; you can't expect them to be in use 24/7 during term time.

A single activity centre -- let's take Foxlease as an example, which was gifted to the Guide Association by Princess Mary in 1922 -- can sleep 166 girls & leaders in indoor accommodation plus 140 camping assuming all pitches are at minimum capacity.

GirlGuiding UK's London offices, which are opposite Buckingham Palace, sleep 30 and are functionally inaccessible to Guides in most of the country. Unlike the activity centres.

Perhaps if GirlGuiding hadn't had to write off £2.8 million owed to them by a company they decided to let run a hotel out of their Location building, they wouldn't be having to sell the family silver. And perhaps they should be selling the inaccessible London office, and not their campsites.

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-owed-28m-unpaid-rent-company-enters-administration/finance/article/1824036

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Inflation rates are quoted as rolling annual percentages.

Since 2019, the cost of goods and services has gone up 21.94%.

You can find out more about much the value of your money has decreased over time using the Bank of England's Inflation Calculator at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sir this is a British sub.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

"The then head of complex casework [at the CCRC] in Manchester said [in 2009]: “If it is assumed that the saliva came from the offender, then it does not derive from Malkinson. This is surprising because the area of the clothing that the saliva was recovered from was crime specific.”

However, he said “he did not see that there was a need to do any further work on the file” unless the case was brought to appeal, and then his focus would be on “bolstering” the case against Malkinson."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Shakespeare has been compulsory for pupils aged 11-14 in British state schools since 1989. The four plays most frequently studied across all age groups are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear, and the plays most frequently studied by 11 and 12 year olds are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and The Merchant of Venice.

So in answer to your question, British people think the Tragedies are appropriate for underage readers.

And all the female parts in Shakespeare plays were originally played by boys.

ETA: 11 and 12 year olds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Private Eye's Nooks and Corners column has been cataloguing the tendency of historic buildings of interest to developers to "go on fire" for years.

https://twitter.com/PrivateEyeNews/status/1267380167778930688?s=20

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead."

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