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Quite remarkable that it didn't appear to occur to anyone that leaving the EEA would mean losing access to Norwegian and Icelandic fishing waters, and that neither country has any

"Index" in this excerpt does not mean CPI. And Fergusson's comment is itself "cooked". The German authorities did not manipulate the figures, they misrepresented their meaning to reassure the population

The circularity of Celsius's business model, explained. You deposit coins, which are lent out to borrowers against their collateral, which is ALSO lent out against collateral, which is ALSO lent

I am conflicted over Graeber. I admired his work, and I think his untimely death is a serious loss. But he was intolerant of disagreement and could be very rude.

Here's another. Hitting an economy just emerging from the deepest recession since WW2 with tax rises on this scale would stamp it into the ground. (And before lefties screech at

Whoever wrote this has never played a brass instrument or sat anywhere near someone playing one. (cc @BigAlStrood) They haven't thought this one through either. A child might be fine

The DofE's algo does not "moderate down" teacher-assessed grades. It ignores them. This is deliberate, since it replaces the external exams that students have been unable to take. Teacher assessment

I've now read Michael Gove's Ditchley lecture. I'm not impressed. It contains nothing we have not heard many times before. Every government in my lifetime has started out with an

Does anyone believe this "drove 260 miles with covid" story? Because I don't. Here's what I think happened. 1/ Dom and his wife had arranged some time before to visit

This chart does not support the notion that oestrogen protects women from the virus. Researchers should be investigating why men aged 50-69 are twice as likely to be admitted to

So the anti-lockdown brigade are claiming:1) that the lockdown makes no difference to death rates 2) that social distancing without lockdown doesn't affect the economy3) that the only epidemiologists who

The IMF's predicted "bounce back" is even more amazing than the OBR's. Global economy to contract by 3% in 2020, then expand by 6% in 2021. Yes, really. In 2021