Muppetry, n. the fanatical desire to promote and implement minimum unit pricing for alcohol as the solution to the world’s alcohol problems. There has been a rise in muppetry in...
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Prudence and Precaution
...be another 6 months. How much more lockdown can we take? Another year? What are the other costs there? Do they literally not matter to the lockdown proponents? 5) Even...
No More Saviours
...will be exceptions) become automatons? Why do the majority want lockdown, and some even want more lockdown? Dr No is not a theologian, and certainly not a Christian one, but...
A Sense of Fear
Putting aside the leery banality of the Nick Robinson interview, the next greatest threat to public service reporting is the sense–of paradigm. Pioneered by the Welsh Windbag known for the...
As A Precaution
The higher one lies in national life, the more one suffers from the indignities of precautions. When Prince Philip drives his Range Rover over a cliff top at ninety miles...
You, the State and Your Fate
...to heart. The behavioural nudge experts got it wrong. Far from people getting lockdown fatigue, quite the opposite has happened. A majority of us have instead internalised the lockdown, as...
Naturality and Familiarity
“When someone is honestly 55% right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God....
Just Another Seasonal Flu Like Illness
...same conurbation and Copenhagen having a lockdown. Certainly food for thought. But it's impossible to prove a negative: what would have happened in the absence of an organised control. It's...
Failing Mothers to Save Grannies
...seems unlikely given the long term decline in stillbirth rate. dearieme - this post is about the possible harms from lockdown, not from covid itself, or any gloop deployed to...