Not sure if anybody is visiting the site since my stats have gone down for the past two days but on the off chance there’s anybody out there interested in the newest episode of the podcast, here it is. This week, among other things, we talk masks, Libya, and cancel culture.
Continue ReadingMasks
At every stage of this crisis, it seems the British government aren’t just a step or two behind the rest of the world. They’re deliberately traipsing along at the rear like surly teenagers taken to see a museum devoted to the stirrup pump. It’s pathological how this government chooses to do the wrong thing and […]
Continue ReadingDark Fate & The Hunt
As is my nature, I can rarely do things in moderation. I’m currently in a bit of a rut with my work. I don’t know what to do, so at night I’m going through some heavy-duty TV/movie watching. It started a few weeks ago with Piccard but has intensified in recent days. Last night I […]
Continue ReadingReacting to Reaction Videos
You’ll have to forgive me today. Last night, I foolishly succumbed to Youtube until well after midnight. I don’t know what to say. It was shameful. I know exactly how it happened. I was shutting down for the night when I briefly browsed Youtube, wondering if there’s been any news about AMD’s Zen 3 processors… […]
Continue ReadingDoing the maths…
Also from me today, over at Reaction, I did some rough back-of-the-envelope calculations about mortality rates and why politicians seem to get it so wrong.
Continue ReadingSCOTUS
Well, that was something of a surprise. Donald Trump has now lost both cases that were before the Supreme Court and with the court divided, remarkably given how Trump was supposed to have stacked it in his favour, 7 votes against 2. I wrote about this a few months ago when the best legal minds […]
Continue ReadingNot So Sunny Sunak
I thought I’d wait to see what the Chancellor had to say before I blogged today but I’m beginning to wish I hadn’t bothered. There’s really not that much to say… I’m sure some of his measures will do what they are intended to do but so much of it works at the macroeconomic level. […]
Continue ReadingRainy Day Cartoon
Christ! The day is weird and slightly yellow like somebody has scraped butter across badly burnt toast. It hasn’t stopped raining and… well… I really can’t be arsed. I have these days. I sit down, pause to look at what I’ve been doing, and think it’s all utter crap. Two or three cartoons out of […]
Continue ReadingSo, I finally got around to Solo…
I’ve been watching so much sci-fi recently that I find myself wanting to watch even more sci-fi. On Saturday night, I almost started The Expanse but I realised I have far too many series on the go. I want to finish at least one before various free subscriptions run out. Instead, I thought I’d bite […]
Continue ReadingOver Yonder
A new article by me, over yonder, about Trump’s speech before Mount Rushmore, and how he appropriates American culture as his own, from the Old West, through the civil rights movement, up to the music of Neil Young.
Continue ReadingGroggy Monday
Late again. It would be shameful to specify the time I crawled from my pit this morning but, then, I was writing deep into the early hours to get an article sent off for the start of Monday. I now need to write myself out of my grogginess, induced by a deep and vivid dream […]
Continue ReadingKanye Vouchers
Had a long lie-in since it’s Sunday, so I’m late to my desk. Late to the news as well and there’s so much to parse this morning. I’m not sure where to begin: with the rumoured government plan to give us all ÂŁ500 vouchers to get the economy going again or Kanye West running for […]
Continue ReadingBooze is back…
Worked into the early hours, drawing that particularly unpleasant cartoon, which I decided to post because, honestly, I like posting cartoons even more than I like posting articles. I also suspect some of you enjoy the cartoons more than my written work and, if so, then these cartoons are for you. For me, that’s a […]
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