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 […]
This is an article by Jodie Simpson, based on a letter she wrote to her MP. I would like to register my objection, in the strongest terms, to the continuing lockdown. Before I go on, let’s just take a moment to think about the meaning of the word ‘lockdown’. It seems to have originated in […]
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. When a pandemic such as COVID-19 strikes, there are benefits to reducing the rate of infection. Doing so allows us to reduce the total number of people who get infected (minimise […]
This is an article by Stephen Jackson, principal at Jackson Osborne Employment Lawyers. Stephen is a solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience acting for employers and employees. I happened to speak to two small business owners last weekend, hoping to reopen soon and call their staff back from furlough. Both were surprised but grateful […]
This is an article by Sam Case (not his real name), a former police officer now working in sport and health. I’m no expert. There I said it, open and honest from the get go, how refreshing. The concept of groupthink has foundations laid out by the psychologist Irving L. Janis, it seeks to discover […]
This is an article by Chris Larkin. Public health must not, and cannot, become an alibi for infringing on the rights of millions of people around the world, let alone for depriving the civil authority of its duty to act wisely for the common good. Many authoritative voices in the world of science and medicine […]
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. A few weeks ago, I created an age-dependent mortality model.This was a top-down approach, trying to make a predictive model that honoured various observations […]
This is an article by Jodie Simpson (not her real name), who has gone through the minutes of the meetings held by the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group of Emergencies (SAGE). I’ve read through the SAGE minutes, from March to the present date. Below are selected quotes, with very little input from me. This is just […]
This is an article by Jeremy Harris. Jeremy is a businessman and investor in New Zealand, one of the few whose businesses seems to have profited from Covid madness thus far – the advantage of being well hedged. Background from Hector: A New Zealand professor, Rod Jackson, published a scaremongering article in the NZ Herald, […]
Reader Christopher Bowyer has once again at the digital coalface making graphs, which he has sent to me. Some are based on NHS England data, and some on the ONS week 21 release. (Bear in mind that ‘with Covid-19’ deaths includes any death where the deceased was suspected of having Covid-19, even if it was […]
This is an article by Charlie Spedding, whose blog can be found here. Charlie is a former pharmacist. He was also a champion long-distance runner in his younger days. He was the winner of the 1984 London Marathon, and he is an Olympic bronze medallist. Media attention has been focussed firmly on the misdemeanours of […]