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Wallabies, little red bears... we should just open the gates of the wildlife park/concentration camp/zoo and let them all out. Be great for tourism, we could even fence Jurby off and let them breed and grow. Eventually they'll overtake humans and they might set up a wildlife park/concentration camp/zoo for us to live in.

Some enterprising freemason would make a killing with a Wacky Warehouse-type outlet on the island. An enterprising resident might think it would be a sound idea but find every avenue blocked.

None of them can understand a word she is saying probably. She shlurs her wordshs a bit too much.

Prices have gone up significantly recently.

Why? Does this type of thing not happen anywhere else?

To be fair the whole area did need to be razed to the ground and disinfected. The kids needed hosing down after spending 20 minutes there.

They're charging transatlantic prices already.

You got it brains.

To play devil's advocate if the World Health Organisation declare radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans' then we should be giving it more than a cursory dismissal. Of course we need more ongoing research but let's not pretend living in an ever increasing sea of electro smog isn't going to have an effect on biological health.

Having relatives who live in Singapore who have recently been through cancer I can tell you the way they approach things there, and across that part of the world, is a lot different than we do in the west, often with a lot greater success rates. They take the best of all kinds of approaches and treat the cancer as well as the whole. They'll use targeted treatments like radiotherapy combined with acupuncture, they'll use chemotherapy as an adjunct to herbal medicine and the doctors will have the knowledge to talk through each approach. Having also experienced cancer first hand in this country with oncologists who wouldn't dream of extolling the virtues (and indeed be outright dismissive of) anything other than their very narrow medical training and treatment options it strikes me that it's the west that needs to widen it's scientific scope rather than maintain it's arrogant and dated stance on the subject.

Pretty poor comeback from the woman in charge of public health though. You'd expect a more robust argument than that from the woman in charge of overseeing the decline in health on the island.

At last it's keeping the Cult of Greta off our airwaves for a brief period.

Yes. It's not nearly as easy to get access to the decent stuff as it is across.

Clearly someone who hasn't spent any time in the UAE and picks up their worldly knowledge from Google.

Ain't that the truth. Frustrating, but the idiots in charge don't realise it's the entrepreneurs that keep the island's economy going which in turn keeps them in a job. Having just got back from the middle east on business, where they positively encourage entrepreneurship, it's depressing to come back to the rock and the brain numbing government culture which is dragging it down.