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Let's face reality. We have the weirdest, most useless government ever and they act as though criticism, from right and left, is an endorsement. Everything driven by an ultra driven advisor. Just what kind of brave new world do they offer? One that certainty...
People need to feel confident; at the moment there doesn't seem to be a clear direction of travel from the government, nor are important messages being given to the large numbers of citizens who seem rather uninformed. What does seem obvious is that social...
'remember to breathe', was often said to me which although it made me laugh I thought was true. I read a book once about SAS snipers who would calm themselves before taking the shot by deep breathing so they were steady on the trigger. I think remembering...
The election is about more than a few controversial reforms and some divisive rhetoric. PiS is well on the way to establishing what Orban has termed an illiberal democracy. The mechanism is simple: all state institutions are made subservient to the party...
As a pandemic and a global anti-racism movement unsettle us and force us to think deeply about how our societies perpetuate an inequality that threatens the lives of those on the sharp end of law enforcement and poor healthcare access, our “thinkers”...
Unfortunately, the damage that Covid-19 causes is almost certainly not confined entirely to the death rate. We may not know for some time exactly what else it causes, but even now we have enough evidence to know that there are other problems out there....
If a publisher puts out books or journals that tell lies they can be sued. Why is this not the same for the social media barons? If it were they would quickly get their acts together. It was always thought to be an ad funded internet. That has caused...
As usual, this English governments handling of something has consisted largely of blunder and has been fuelled by incompetence, lacking clarity and seemingly devoid of strategy. The messaging concerning masks was extremely confusing and conveyed that...
For the last few years, US politics has seemed devoid of integrity after the ascension of Trump, bringing forward the nations decline on the global stage. From election fixing to thinly veiled racism and and everything in between, Trump and his family...
By far the best link between classical German literature and an entirely modern take on the original work is by the East German writer Ulrich Plenzdorf. His "Die neuen leiden des jungen W." says a great deal about the malaise felt by a younger generation...
After the Berlin Wall came down and Germany had to re-unite the ex-soviet East Germany with the modern and industrial West, it embarked on a programme of refitting factories, upgrading infrastructure and bringing the standard of living in the east towards...
Johnson is an obfuscator at the level of paranoia. He is pathologically incapable of trusting people and the irony is that it excerbates his honesty problem as we perceive it. How dare we question him. He is born to the purple while we are common serfs....
What's been missing from most of the scientific and other advice that have been seen, particularly earlier in the pandemic, has been an evaluation of risk in the case of the uncertainties that we faced. For example it wasn't clear whether or not the virus...
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For months, there has been speculation about how society will emerge from lockdown. From a rise in digital communication to an increase in neighbourly spirit, there have been promising signs of a better way out of this crisis, a just way forward that...
Those who subsist in the financial market bubble are so desperately glued to their screens that they are incapable of seeing the wider picture and grasp only at those straws that might keep their dream alive for the next five minutes. Do they ever take...
It is neither a question of optimism or pessimism, but of realism. As the US Fed warned yesterday, it cannot on its own stem a depression. And the reasons given are political and medical. Put bluntly,unless the US government can get its act together to...
Last weekend we were visited by a single working mother with a 6 year old daughter. During lockdown she was one of the 80 % of parents who didn't send her child back to school, preferring to use babysitters, and online help from teachers. In between times...
Bee farmers aim to run profitable business enterprises based on the management of stocks of honey bees. Businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) vary in scale from part-time concerns providing an additional income stream from self-employment to large-scale...
moving in one direction immune suppression spikes and hot points decisions that have been made intimately involved finally getting statistics announcement was made dammed if you do dammed if you don't people making their own decisions permissions to stay...
It’s worth considering that the 1918 pandemic could be clearly identified as an event in itself compared to other outbreaks of very serious disease. A hundred years on, the West has developed healthcare systems and an arsenal of therapies, starting with...
This year plenty many of Edinburgh residents that are delighted that the Festival has been cancelled this year. I used to love the buzz of the festival but simply too many 'culture tourists' making residents lives unworkable - sky high rents, not enough...
The best diet is, depending, the Japanese diet or the Mediterranean diet. Neither have a lot of sugar in them and Italians don’t drink vast amounts of alcohol either - Unlike like the Northern Europeans. There’s loads of calories in alcohol and most Britons...
Take air travel to a far-flung destination, join an enormous cruise liner to go even further afield, disembark at fascinating, tiny places in the distant third world and spend a few Dollars on a coffee and a postcard for the beloved grandchildren, dump...
Data collection on chronic covid symptoms is vital. If we don't know how many people have long tail covid or how long for or how it is affecting them we have little chance of effectively treating these people. There's likely to be big, ongoing illness...
