I don't know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.
I'll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.
Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.
"Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled."
Those without have to take the same risk regardless of whether or not it's offered for sale at Boots.
No, I don't see that as particularly helpful.
Global annual influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity is around 1.68 billion doses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309624/
Pfizer alone can churn out 4 billion COVID doses annually. https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/manufacturing-and-distribution
I eat more than the minimum required to live despite others living in poverty, and I use more energy than the minimum despite others living in poverty, and I bet you do too. I'm not going to pretend that refusing to get privately vaccinated against COVID is going to change anything except my risk of serious adverse outcomes from exposure to COVID.
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.
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/
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.
I mean I'm not really a fan myself, but it can't all be alternating BBC and Guardian stories.
"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."
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.
Brown was extremely popular among members of the Labour party, and never had a snowball's chance in hell in a general election.
Bit of a pattern there.
Eventually you have to grow up and accept that the perfect is the enemy of the good.