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1/ Labour's pivot, and I would argue their strategy on Brexit since 2016 has relied on assuming Different Interpretations of the same Rorsach ink-blot test.They want remainers to see a

1/ Rock and Roll podcast on BBC coverage of Philip's death: excessive, indicative of fear of right wing press.Shallow analysis though: not delving into why royal funerals are important to

Pre-Covid, it was theorised that conservatives were more germophobic than liberals. People used to claim "Trump is a germaphobe". Theories even abounded that to conservatives, immigrants were perceived by conservatives

When asked what her biggest achievement was, Thatcher replied "New Labour".The biggest achievement of Vote Leave,Johnson, Cummings,Gove is "Blue Labour": absolute victory in the culture war+the shift right in the

1/ After a morning of heart tests the saying ""if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" springs to mind.I get a respiratory illness (Covid) and coincidentally have

1/ Inspired by the tweet referenced....An economic history of the UK in my lifetime: The Tory party continually drives our economy in to walls at high speed.https://twitter.com/jrhopkin/status/1283693474592763904 2/ Tory party

What's the takeaway from today?The government thinks it can get away with post-truth (lies) on a subject that the entire public understands, which has affected them, which if undermined could

"Top KCDC officials said in recent briefings that the most likely possibility is reactivation of remaining viruses in patients' systems. If a patient had not developed sufficient immunity against the

The oil industry will be thinking - if we can just get through the next 11 years then prices will get back to > $50 a barrel https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/light-sweet-crude.html

1/ Another thing I don't understand about the herd immunity strategy:Herd immunity accepts higher infection rates, and higher simultaneous cases.Therefore it expects higher loads on health systems.So it requires even

Spoke to a leaver today.Blames science for mishandling of Covid-19 epidemic. Refused to accept anything I said (that gov relied on a single team of modelers ignoring scientific consensus, WHO,