How London is protecting itself against the threatened Second Wave of The Plague
A friend (the one whom I refer to here as GD2S) iPhone-photoed this photo to nights ago, in Soho, London: The Plague is now over. The only thing London is now scared of is the damn “Temporary...
View ArticleAt least they seem willing to end Lockdown
From this tweet, concerning a piece behind the Telegrap paywall (thankyou Adriana Lucas) …: It’s rather reminiscent of Medieval physicians, attributing any sign of recovery to the effectiveness of...
View ArticleIs this duck the same weight as Amey Coney Barrett?
This duck has been in the news recently: The Babylon Bee did a piece just over a week ago about how Senator Hirono, also to be seen in the fake-photo above, brought a duck with her to the Congressional...
View ArticleI’m pretty sure that’s not the problem
I made my trip (see below) to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and the trip had the effect of making the state I was in, i.e. the reason I went, worse. Any posture is uncomfortable for me just now....
View ArticleIt looks and tastes like conventionally-produced chicken
A new restaurant is opening up in Tel Aviv: At a new restaurant in Tel Aviv called The Chicken, the chicken on the menu is grown from cells in a bioreactor in an adjacent pilot plant visible through a...
View Article“We believe passionately …”
Mick Hartley comments on the statement by Julie Birchill’s ex-publishers about why they cancelled her book: And you can almost guarantee that if someone states how they “believe passionately in freedom...
View ArticleBeing offensive is not an offence and a public falsehood about the content of...
This: I, and many others, found this sign very offensive. Which means that it was “being offensive” and it broke its own rule. Some of those many others complained and Merseyside Police retreated:...
View ArticleA House of Lords speech defending women and defending the English language
This bit of video, lasting just under ten minutes, which I recently came upon here, is surely likely to get a lot more attention than it’s got so far: I like it because it is suffused with the very...
View ArticleEmail problems: EIG2BA
I am suffering email problems just now. I can send them, but I can’t receive them. As of now, I am relying on The Guru to ensure that …: … which it surely will, eventually. Meanwhile, the only other...
View ArticleMcCloskey summarised by Scheidel
I have recently been reading Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel. Scheidel himself summarises the arguments in this book in this piece. Better yet,...
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