if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

July 4th. Isn’t that a holiday in the USA? It’s also a General Election here. My MP will get returned because they have a majority as la...

Prof Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University, in the US, Dr Lars Jonung, from Lund University, Sweden, and Jonas Herby, special adviser at...

On this day in 2020, the British Government made it illegal for people to leave their houses without excuse, shut schools, closed hospitals ...

tl;dr Uh, no, because there weren't 500,000 extra retirements. The Bank of England is blaming inflation and our current recession on 50...

here's a video by UpAndAtom about why the scientists seemed to make such a hash of dealing with Covid. It's good stuff, until the...

Freedom Day was in July 2021, but the restrictions weren't removed until the end of February 2022,  SAGE wasn't disbanded until the ...

According to the ONS survey, one in thirteen people currently have the virus. A year ago that would have had us all locked into our houses. ...

What did I do before the Great Void that is still worth doing? I was whinging about the cost and content of movies, and the cost and qualit...

Sunday will be the second anniversary of the UK Lockdown. Just to be clear: f**k everyone who imposed, administered or enabled lockdowns. A...

Management gurus love to quote the mavericks on the need to think differently, go against the consensus, dodge the groupthink and otherwise ...

The latest theory about why we accepted lockdowns and restrictions is called "Mass Formation Psychosis" (MFP). It says that when a...

Bear with me here. Right at the start of this nonsense, I said that the March 2020 lockdown felt like a war. I never examined that any fur...

In January this year, I suggested we should plan for this nonsense to be going on for another four years. Until 2025. I had a moment's h...

As best as I can figure out from a diary-search, my life started to close in on itself in 2017. I was 63, after all. All the fun kids at wor...

I have utterly and completely lost the knack of taking photographs. I'm pretty sure Aristotle thought that was a sign that a man had fal...

(aside from the day job, daily walks, cooking food and all that routine stuff) Monday: the nice man from the AA pumped up my flat tyre and ...

...since I published anything. I've written stuff, but held it back. Vaccine passports. The irrational fear of the insides of pubs and ...

My inner ACoA thinks lockdown will be forever. Even though my rational self knows it won't be. I'm worried that by the time it does ...

I used to be a strategic planner. Micro-economic modelling of the company, economic forecasts, translating business policies into numbers, f...

Notice how the health policy discussion has changed? Nobody now even makes a gesture to the idea that the Virus is serious or life-threateni...