‘In the coming days’
Not unique to daily briefing’s on the pandemic but still a pathetic twist on tomorrow, next week or soon IMO.
it’s in the same league as ‘outside space’.
covidiot
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Thanks for being thoughtful and kind!
Thanks, my pleasure, Fleur. I’m in one of my better frames of mind… 
I don’t feel kind towards “oven-ready”, it’s “well past its sell-by date” 
, in fact t’were better both of’ em unborn… 
It was always a little confusing putting something that was “oven ready” bring put in a microwave as described by Johnson - but then again something tells me that Johnson is not a microwave kind of guy!
Nor me. But “it is what it is”.
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I was neutral towards ‘oven-ready’ until Boris got his podgy unwashed mitts on it, maybe after tucking his shirt tails in to his weeks old Y-fronts. Eeuugh!
Something fried his brain though 
This from the Urban Dictionary
A coward / liar. Someone who comes up with poor excuses.
Comes from Durham England. Derives from the 1569 Rebellion when Sir George Bowes refused to leave Barnard Castle to engage in battle.
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I remember when living in Durham City nearly forty years ago (that long ago?) Barnard Castle was known as ‘Barney’, so I imagine today one might describe a porkie as ’ a tad Barney Cummings.’
On the other hand (so to speak) one might just call a lie a ‘Johnson’ (apologies to our N American readers).
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Zoom
Let’s jump on…(ex: What’sApp, FaceTime, Zoom)
and I hope it becomes permanent:
Black Lives Matter
All Lives Matter…
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Graham Lees:
« It would be fantastic if all lives mattered but all lives are not valued equally. You don’t have to know about Black history but instinctively you have to understand that when people are saying “Black Lives Matter” it’s because its Black lives that have been disproportionately suffering »
Don’t spout terms used by racists to maintain the status quo unless you are a racist, in which case, don’t be a racist.
Please explain why “all lives matter” is a racist term…
and please don’t call me a racist it is against the T&Cs 
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I don’t think you have actually been called a racist.
But I am inclined to agree that all lives matter and to designate some people as belonging to a particular racial type as being somehow different is to fall into the racist trap.
I have never understood why people who display any “black” physical characteristics are regarded as being entirely “black” even if they are genetically predominately “white”. That seems to be a white man’s lie that we all seem to accept.
Sadly, Graham, the phrase AllLivesMatter has been taken over by far-right racists in the UK and elsewhere and it’s become unwise to use it unless you are of that ilk. I know you are not of that ilk and may not realise that it has become an offensive phrase.
Take care
Izzy x
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It was an unwise choice of words and I take exception to the inference - deliberate or not. The best way forward is for the poster to rephrase her comment (and I will do likewise for completeness thereafter).
This is a good explanation of why AllLivesMatter has become controversial.
Graham Lees:
Please re-read exactly what I said instead of taking an attack stance.
I think you are not really interested in hearing what I or anyone has to say on the matter but OK, Im going to take the bait:
The term All Lives Matter is dismissive of the systemic racism black people face in England, in France, in the USA and throughout the world. Racism was born to justify the trading of human beings, aka slavery, and the hierarchy between superior and inferior beings. It’s the most common response of people who want to perpetuate the existing system of inequality between black and white.
If you are truly interested in why ALM stems from a racist agenda, and are not simply interested in engaging in circular argument, you can find plenty
of literature on the web. I hope you take the time to educate yourself.
Here is something I took the time to find for you. I hope it helps you understand a bit more.
If you’re saying let’s treat things as if everything is equal when they’re not, you’re simply supporting a system that is already unequal. So that’s why saying All Lives Matter in a world where black people are being disproportionately killed, is actually contributing to the problem of racism.
Not a very good argument there @IzzyM by ITV.
If a house on your street was on fire would you expect the fire service to train their hoses on all the houses? Well, yes if the risk demanded it! A terrace of Victorian or Georgian houses with no firebreak between them would demand that the hoses be trained on the lot to prevent/mitigate the fire sweeping through the open lofts…
But if you want a grown up debate about the term let’s do it!
IMO there is a world of a difference between the words separated out and the hashtag version all joined together. In it’s own way, could the hashtag version itself be regarded as reverse racist - if that is an understandable concept - in other words, against white people who lives don’t matter, if you see what I mean… IMHO This whole thing has been hijacked by people with a completely different agenda.