This is London Calling.

London Calling.

There will be no further measures before the New Year.

Of course people should remain cautious as we approach New Year celebrations

and take a lateral flow test that makes sense

celebrate outside if you can have some ventilation indoors if you can and when we get

into the new year of course we will see then whether we do need to take any further measures but nothing more until then at least

Welcome to London calling with me James Dankhart and my very good fan Mr Tope Young.

Tope How is your Christmas?

It was good and everything was great apart from on Christmas day at around 1030 a.m. the Daily Skeptic site crashed and went offline.

And we investigated and discovered it's what's called a disc error and typically

when a hard disc at your kind of server company becomes corrupted, there's a backup system which

stops your site from crashing, but the backup system failed as well.

So the site was down for about 30 hours. And I thought, well, this site was down for about 30 hours and I thought well this could be you know a

77th brigade malicious cyber attack.

I think they called DOS attacks or something.

Well I don't think it was a denial of service attack that's something

something slightly different but but well you've exhausted my technical

knowledge I think militating against that is if they were going to attack the site, why do it on Christmas day when it has sort of the least number of visitors than any other day of the year.

You did make sure when we broke a really big story which completely undermined, you know,

SAGE's case for more restrictions, but no.

No, also, I mean, why would they attack controlled opposition? I mean...

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