I don’t by any means always agree with Paul Krugman, but that does not mean he cannot be right. Excepting his understatement of the risk
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Don’t Look Up is brilliant – ignore the critics
I wrote this on Twitter last night: New Year’s Eve and watched Don’t Look Up. Brilliant. Don’t believe the critics. But do despair for the
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I want HEPA filtration for 2022
I don’t usually do this, but I feel the need to share here some of what I wrote in my column for The National newspaper
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A year in data
As 2021 closes these are some blog stats. These were blog reads: I had massive traffic on Covid in 2020. That did not repeat, but
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Reasons to be pessimistic
This has been a difficult year. We all know that. Almost all of us will be wishing 2022 might be better. That, though, requires a
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Just suppose – and then what?
I know this is only a projection with lots of caveats in it, but just imagine…. Current polling projected onto the Provisional 2023 Boundaries* LAB:
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The time to bring local authority audit back out of the control of the National Audit Office has arrived
The FT reports this morning that: The essence of the story is quite simple. In an effort to save cost a decade or so ago,
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The last thing that we need in 2022 is a poll tax on energy consumption
The FT reports this morning that: Households facing a “cost of living catastrophe”, including soaring gas and electricity charges, in April could yet be spared
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Shouldn’t we be discussing the future of the monarchy?
I am not greatly interested in royalty, usually. The last twenty-four hours has interested me much more than usual. Firstly, the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict clearly
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