I attracted quite a lot of opprobrium on Twitter yesterday for raising questions on the efficiency of vaccines, and for suggesting that there is risk
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Eurovision, and related issues
It is a Sunday morning for connected, but apparently diverse, thoughts. First, Eurovision. I watched it right through for the first time in many years.
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The long-Covid effect on the economy has hardly begun, and is still being ignored. It’s time we talked about it
The i newspaper has reported this morning that there are at least three new mutant strains of Covid 19 that may escape vaccines. There are
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Covid’s existential question is do we want to survive?
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The government is denying it, but the scientists are seemingly quite sure about the fact that we
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Is an interest rate increase likely?
I hear people saying inflation is coming and so too will interest rates be on the way up. I don’t think significant inflation is at all
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Landlords still have the potential to upset any economic recovery – and the government is planning to let them do just that
As the covid crisis was developing in March 2020 I argued that one of the first requirements from the government was rent holidays. As I
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Living with Covid is the wrong strategy. Eliminating it is the right one.
Booming banks
The banks are booming. Lloyds Bank has reported better than expected profits this morning. It’s not the only bank to do so of late. The
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Corruption fatigue
I read the papers this morning and flagged not a single article as providing the inspiration for a blog post. As regular readers will note,
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