I have now spent a fortnight pretty much under the weather with long Covid. This is a part of a five-month episode since early July
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Long Covid, again
I began talking about long Covid again last week. I had been trying to avoid having to take antibiotics again, having had at least seven
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On comments, again
Might I remind those commenting here for the first time of this blog I posted in June this year: Over 80% of all new commentators
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On Mastodon
I think anyone who uses Twitter will agree on two things this week. One is that they are worried about its future. The second is
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To Twitter or not?
It seems Elon Musk has bought a company for $44 billion despite thinking it fundamentally unsound, and with about 50% excess staff. That company is
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210,000
I noticed this at an early hour this morning, being up at 5 to talk to first BBC 5 Live and then the Today programme
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I do political economy, not party politics
I criticised Labour in a thread I wrote yesterday. I made it clear that in my opinion its neoliberalism was a danger to the country.
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How long before the government seeks to shut down all dissent?
This is from George Monbiot in The Guardian this morning and is too important not to share: Effectively this means that if I want to
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The Bank of England is bailing out pension funds, again
A pile of commentators have appeared on this blog over the last day or so telling me that the interventions by the Bank of England
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