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they have a much younger population who are much less vaccinated. we won t know for several weeks what proportion of cases here will need hospital treatment. the government is not ruling out further measures beyond plan b to control omicron. but no ones yet is using the l word lockdown. we absolutely do need to keep everything under review. i think the measures we are taking are proportionate. we recognise the importance of balancing the ability for people to get on with their lives with the need to protect against this virus. but action is absolutely required, and as new data comes in, we will consider what action we do require to take in the face of that data. this is the last news people wanted to hear in the run up to christmas. we face an anxious wait before we knowjust how big and how serious the omicron wave will be. fergus walsh, bbc news.
considered so taboo, but we do still swear a lot, just not quite as much. do you have any sense of whether there are some swear words which were used to find a really offensive that are potentially more acceptable now, or not? that are potentially more acceptable now. or not? now, or not? yes, absolutely, and i think the best now, or not? yes, absolutely, and i think the best example now, or not? yes, absolutely, and i think the best example of now, or not? yes, absolutely, and i think the best example of that i now, or not? yes, absolutely, and i l think the best example of that would be the f word, which is now the most popular swear word of all, which wasn t the case in the 90s, that the bl word. f word is much more common thanit bl word. f word is much more common than it was, which suggests that has weakened. that suggests it has weakened. that suggests it has weakened both syntactically, the positions in sentences it can take, but also in terms of its meaning. of course it
surprising if he went forward with it. all right, so, jerry nadler, obviously, is now very significant in congress, right, as a chairman judiciary. and has come out and said not that the president is going to mislead, he s actually saying the president is using the l-word, right? the lie word. not not telling the truth, but lying. when you hear him say it, here it is. i expect the president to lie to the american people. why do i expect this? because he has been lying to the american people and his spokespeople continue lying to the american people. so quickly, that means when it comes to congress, it doesn t seem this whole pr push this week is going to do anything in terms of a shutdown. this will have actually nothing to do with a shutdown. my biggest concern about the speech is that the president will go into the oval office and continually lie. and when he does that, that s really going to sully the oval office. we just haven t seen it at this level from a president an