Stocky

Nevertheless

DHL

Government

Reindeer (Rudolf's dad, honest)

What you going to do, throw them at the zombies?

Circle (anagram)

My Monzo account just works from the app on my Thai phone, they have a UK contact number, but it's never been required or needed to complete transactions.

Is that the fare from Phuket Airport to Patong?

Naughty, naughty Robert, trying to cash in with an invite. .

Alarm

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Shock horror!

If you have a UK address with evidence, such as a utility or council tax bill, you could open an online bank account (Monzo, Wise, Revolut et al) without physically being in the UK. But your bank card will go to the UK address.

Contrived

Similar in that the land was occupied and populated by invaders a long time back in history (1798), dissimilar in that the incoming population remains the minority (15% Buddhist v 85% Muslim), dissimilar in that partition was imposed without any reference to the local populations wishes (1909 Anglo-Siam Treaty). .

Card

Limburger

Potter

Well they couldn't have picked a worse time to start such a venture. I do feel sorry for them, and hope they succeed somewhere else, but it remains perilous times for travel in SE Asia.

That graph is pretty much the same for any country. In the wake of the 2007/8 financial crisis, precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage scam, governments agreed on a policy of quantative easing in order to maintain liquidity and encourage lending and investment. This was designed to stave off a repeat of the Great Depression experienced after the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Whether the hangover from a decade (and counting) of cheap money and its borrowing frenzy will be worse than the decade long period of the Great Depression only time will tell. But certainly if you've left your money in the bank the last ten years you've been committing financial suicide.

Less

Neither am I, nor am I a gullible moron.

The AstraZeneca vaccine has been fully tested, and no it wasn't thrown together in 2 months, it actually built on the existing work the Oxford team had already been working on since the 2014 Ebola outbreak. They developed the idea of a 'plug n play' vaccine using their engineered chimpanzee cold virus ChAdOx1 for delivery. They were planning for Disease X, when Covid-19 came all they needed was the genetic data for the Covid spike protein. The Oxford Jenner Institute are certainly not some new comers to virology, whilst AstraZeneca might be new to vaccine manufacture, this isn't some shonky outfit regardless how some of the press might have reported it. There is nothing in the article you linked to that suggests the AZ vaccine is a bad choice.

Vision