This is an article by Sam Case, a former police officer now working in sport and health. I carried the old-style truncheon. It was pretty useless. Smashed the odd window with it. It resided mostly in my locker, furloughed, much like the population of late. The risk with weapon deployment is that sometimes, if you […]
This is an article by Martin Sewell. Martin is a quantitative researcher and developer in the financial industry. He can be contacted on martin@martinsewell.com. Black Lives Matter. The name itself is certainly a brilliant piece of marketing (Cobley, 2020). It is both a true statement (so difficult to argue against) and consistent with the current […]
More graphs from Christopher Bowyer, for week 24 (last week). ONS data here. NHS England data here. All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Data from NHS England. Percentage of deaths with Covid-19 by pre-existing condition. (95.23% have one […]
This is an article by Tim James. Tim manages legal liabilities arising from industrial disease cases. All opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the ongoing debate over the merits of the United Kingdom’s various lockdown measures the focus has understandably been upon comparing the number of lives the lockdown has allegedly saved with the […]
Note: This is an update of my earlier post ‘This is what we screwed the world for‘. If you’ve read that one already you can just skip to the population-adjusted graph, which is what I’ve added in this post. So I have taken the ONS’s annual death figures for England and Wales and graphed them […]
Turns out the utterly useless ONS have no population data for England and Wales before 1971, not even estimates. Unbelievable. The enormous of rubbish they have on their site, yet not even the most basic population data. I will have to find some alternative sources of information, and make some careful estimates. Update: This is […]
So I have taken the ONS’s annual death figures for England and Wales and graphed them all the way back to the turn of the twentieth century. Then I thought: what if we presumed that the death toll for 2020 is the five-year average plus the Covid-19 numbers? This is likely to be a high […]
This is an article by Eva Dehlinger. Biology is a real thing. We can see its elements and name them and measure them. In humans, chromosomes, DNA, gametes, hormone levels, and primary and secondary sex characteristics can all be identified, named and measured. From that information, almost all humans can be classified as definitively belonging […]
More graphs from Christopher Bowyer. Christopher sent these to me last week but with all the Parler happenings I haven’t had time to get them up until now. (Similarly, if I haven’t replied to your e-mails it’s because I’m behind, will catch up soon.) ONS data here. NHS England data here. All graphs can be […]
Big day on social media today (ie. Saturday), which partly explains why I’ve got a bit behind here. Virtually overnight there was a massive grassroots push for all conservatives and libertarians and non-leftists to leave Twitter and move to a new free speech platform called Parler. The result was hundreds of prominent personalities who decided […]
This is an article by Sam Case, a former police officer now working in sport and health. Affray, riot, arson, vandalism, looting. Words that conjure up images of street brawls, burning cars, smashed windows and police officers in NATO helmets. Large scale public disorder is an interesting phenomena, behaving a bit like pathogens. Nothing for […]
This is an article by Peter Divey. I am passionate about visiting churches. I grew up in Norfolk, and towers were everywhere. My family were not religious and we never attended church outside of weddings, baptisms or funerals. Even the smallest of hamlets in Norfolk often had a church, usually a tumbledown graveyard too. I […]
This is an article by Zero HP Lovecraft, who tells me that most of it comes from the work of psychologist Robert B Cialdini, but he has added his own social media moral at the end. During the Korean War, captured American soldiers found themselves in POW camps run by Chinese Communists. The Chinese treated […]
This is an article by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 years working for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. I have had enough. After nearly 3 months of this, I am going to call it for what it is: TOTAL AND UTTER NONSENSE. […]
This is an article by Jeremy Harris. Jeremy is a businessman and investor in New Zealand. Why is America burning itself down in reaction to the murder of George Floyd and why are people in other countries with no discernible problem with police brutality – especially proportionally greater brutality towards minorities – marching about this […]
Latest graphs from Christopher Bowyer. Many thanks to Christopher for doing these, not just from me, but from many, many other people (these graphs end up all over the web, and social media). ONS data here. NHS England data here. All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) […]
This is an article by David Moore. David has recently returned to Northern Ireland after 20 years in the Middle East, where he was involved in multiple startups and lectured in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It’s not difficult – if not altogether pleasant – to imagine James O’Brien’s routine just before he goes to bed at […]
This is an article by Christopher Bowyer, who has produced many graphs for HD Magazine. Having produced graphs of the NHS England Covid-19 deaths statistics for the past month or so, I thought I would have a go at analysing the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases data. Before I go any further, please bear in mind […]
This is an article by Rory Hamilton. Rory is a ship’s pilot and the dad of four teenagers. He has spent the lockdown in close contact with different captains and crews from all over the world. He is a big lockdown sceptic and has had no truck for this incoherent, illogical, authoritarian and cowardly government […]
This is an article by Dave Hampson. Dave Hampson is currently attempting to make it in the 70s rock music scene. Check out his music on Spotify or get a free track download here. The COVID lockdown, upon first inspection, appeared to stem from the government listening to the advice of a single academic. This […]