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In the absence of any very exciting news ( Cummings good! ( no-one wants to talk about that ) or Cummings bad! ( everyone wants to talk a...

Or, "I read this stuff so you don't have to" you lucky people. My pic is an example of the govt's almost comic innumerac...

Let's start with Neil "Bonking" Ferguson, who said : "I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of...

But not by me, I hasten to add. Quiz: to be taken  before you get to the end. Who is this, and why is he relevant? The story so far: Im...

Sabine Hossenfelder has a blog post (via Not Even Wrong ) asserting that  Predictions are overrated . Obviously, in PW's words, the nai...

Asks The Economist . And the answer (as always) is no. Somewhat to my surprise and against my prejudices. But matching other studies I thin...

An interesting article in the FT by Tim Harford,  Saving the planet demands sacrifices just as Covid-19 does ( arch ), which links Covid a...

Via TF ; see-also Twatter . It is fashionable, especially amongst the Left, to decry the influence of money in politics. This note, by Davi...

[Note: published at end of year during review.] I'm not sure I ever did; but my headline comes from AD . He continues  But COVID reveal...

James half said this a bit ago in  Dumb and dumber but on reflection he only half said it. But people keep on saying, effectively, "...

Contact tracing is going to save us all 5 , and, as my cartoon suggests, involves Bluetooth. VV reckons that a privacy respecting track and ...

A wasps nest. Not new; I suspect from last summer; in which case it's odd I haven't noticed it before. In other news, I've lea...

Well, there are only so many headlines in the world, ol' Folksy Fred will have to make do with a retread  now he's pushing up the d...

As I said about a week ago , wearing masks seems like a good idea. It doesn't have to be a real one, just anything that stops your brea...

Alas, poor John Brignell , he has suffered the sad fate of being declared NN . Cue paroxysms of faux outrage about censorship from the Dork...

ES  makes two predictions : 1) Things are going to be okay if we follow the advice of actual experts and stay home for several weeks or m...

Before you read on, consider Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology by  Noah Haber: Vet your sources or more people will be deluded . ...

As I said , we visited the National Gallery . There's some nice stuff there. Here's some of it. These are in some kind of order... t...