Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Thanks babe. I am wrong as often as anyone else though.

However in an article entitled "The weakest link in fighting Covid is not the public, it’s the UK government" written by a politically motivated journalist in a politically motivated newspaper that fails to point out that the UK is currently..

A) Ranked 2nd in Europe, behind only Iceland in Booster jabs and way ahead of many countries.

and

B) Ranked 31st in Europe for deaths in the last week.

..Means I think I am right on this occasion to point out that the article is highly questionable, even if it does upset the angry lot on here.

These are clearly facts that should make us question his opinions somewhat. If you don't choose to question them then fine, you can ignore the facts.
The article also fails to point out that the UK is in front of Spain, France, Portugal, Sweden and miles in front of Germany and the Netherlands in a total Covid deaths per million comparison;-

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

I’d say that gives a far better perspective than your deaths figure for one week. Does the fact that the writer of the article makes no mention of our relatively poor showing compared to most of the bigger Western European countries make him a UK Government stooge I wonder? Using the logic you employ to discredit the piece, I rather think it does, but as you’re only intent on defending the UK Government (as you always do despite your self proclaimed political balance), I don’t suppose that bothers you too much.

Also, isn’t the Daily Mail defined as an unreliable source by Wikipedia? By the way, I read the Daily Mail in much the same way as you read the Guardian. I often look at it to see what the “other side” is saying and then nine times out of ten dismiss it - the difference between us is that I readily acknowledge what I am (a “lefty” and happy to be one), whereas you harbour this delusion that you come at things n a balanced way when anyone reading your contributions to this thread (and plenty of others) can see that you don’t.