Dougie

Great choice of soundtrack, though 😃

It seems that the problem is that "some schools have told year groups to study from home because they don't have the staff to safely monitor break times." Surely no teaching ability is needed for this. Just get some part-timers in to keep an eye on pupils during breaks and let the teachers get on with their teaching. Ignoring the split infinitive, what does "to safely monitor" actually mean? Are the teachers seen to be at risk of physical injury? If so, they need some big part-timers.

I see that almost 25% of today's new cases are in the 70+ bracket. Is this just some blind reliance on "I've had my two Jabs, so I'll be OK now?

New cases in the 70+ category, most of whom should have had 2 jabs, seem to be rising relatively more rapidly than most - cases have roughly trebled in the last couple of weeks. Are they just taking less care, or is there a more serious, underlying reason? Is the effect of the vaccine wearing off?

Hoodwinked, or......?

How would he know?

IOM today 22/4/20 No new Covid cases confirmed - talks under way to open schools to more pupils A total of 108 tests were carried out by the new on-island testing facility yesterday - and there were no positive results.

Castletown Golf Links is one of the best courses in the world. Very true, in the opinion of Golf Empire (a marketing company?), the owners and a few members. Actually it is just a decent enough course from which a number of long standing members are leaving and joining other clubs on the island.

That'll do nicely, thanks

I am the Chief Expert, appointed by the Chief Secretary as requested by the Chief Minister. Every couple of months, clear the river of fallen trees and such rubbish and don't knock holes in the wall. That'll be £50k, please

I wonder if the developer has any money?

Looks superb. Hope it happens, and soon.

Which would have to be "led" by Malarkey

Spot on, Manximus. What we have is simply not good enough - both residents and visitors deserve better. BmC currently racing back to the island at 16 knots! Saving fuel, knowing that tonight's sailing has been cancelled? With luck the passengers who presumably arrived at Heysham soon after mid-day, expecting to sail at 1415 will arrive here before midnight - but don't hold your breath.

He's finally plucked up the courage to turn it round. Docked 6 hours late and offloading. Overnight trips cancelled.

BmC sitting in Heysham harbour facing inwards. Can't turn round to allow disembarkation because it's too rough! Probably scared of ramming the harbour wall (again!)

The Tempest? Measure for Measure? The Two Noble Kinsmen?

Leave Ms Mone's briefs out of this (and her bra as well, if you can). Is it true that they are going to change the name of the house from Ballakew to Ballaphew?

Still not docked at Heysham. Would seem to be little chance of getting back to Douglas before 20.00 at the earliest.

Departing to Liverpool on schedule tomorrow morning, according to their website

The error, if not actually a wrong-doing, was allowing ourselves to be persuaded, by someone in whom the Treasury seems to have blind faith, to invest £25m in Pinewood Film Advisors without knowing that PFA had probably already agreed to sub-contract their contract with the Treasury to Gasworks Media Ltd.

"The Department of Health and Social care, as it now is, has issued a statement in response to Mr Needham's findings. It expresses the department's condolences to Mr Hall’s family and friends following the conclusion of the inquest into his death, and accepts the coroner’s verdict and recommendation. It adds that following Mr Hall’s death the department undertook an immediate and comprehensive review of the incident and implemented a number of measures in response." Could it be, I wonder, that the Department is fully aware of what happened, and why, and that the person/persons responsible have been appropriately disciplined/dismissed but that they do not wish to make this public? Whatever the reasons, it was certainly not deliberate, but a tragic mistake which enabled this young man to do what he did and a witch hunt would be unlikely to help anyone.

I agree that all these jobs need doing and the Island will be a better place when they are finished but I drove along Peel Road from Pulrose Bridge to The Brown Bobby at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning and the only sign of any activity was one man building a wall. Surely they should be concentrating on getting this major route into Douglas completed as quickly as possible and displaying a bit more urgency. Ahead of schedule they may be, but whose schedule?