Infections So the last week or so, the average number of infections per day in the UK was approx 40,000. How many went unrecorded? People showing no symptoms or very mild ones? I would think this could be a factor…
Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
Electric Cars… something doesn’t add up, meanwhile precious time is being wasted.
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The recent announcement by Boris to bring forward the date at which fossil fuel cars cannot be sold, has people asking questions, like: How will I afford one? How practical are they How reliable are the batteries? How much will…
Covid-19, Politics
Boris is just throwing money away – spending it like there is no tomorrow
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I’m not sure how true this is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54988822 Anyway whatever the details of this, it appears to me that they are just brainlessly spending, and it will have consequences for everyone. How can they pay back the loan on 2…
Covid-19, Politics
Never in the history of Great Britain have so many been controlled by so few
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Parliament is no longer in control. The cabinet isn’t in control. Labour haven’t been in control for a long time. Somebody needs to step in and give us a real choice or at least have some meaningful debates. This is…
Book Reviews, Health, Politics
Book Review: A Statin Nation, by Dr Malcolm Kendrick
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After reading this book, and the Doctoring Data book from the same author, I will never ever take Statins under any circumstances, nor if my mum and dad were alive, would I allow them to take Statins either. Pharmaceutical companies…
Book Reviews, Health, Politics
Book Review: Doctoring Data, by Dr Malcolm Kendrick
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How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense. In a world where somebody somewhere (usually the media) are telling you that you mustn’t do this, or you must do something else, to the point that you don’t really know…
Politics
PFI: Scandously Poor Money Management
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I knew PFI was a waste of taxpayers money, but didn’t know how much of a waste it was until something I spotted recently. Let me give an example: You want to buy a car for £5000. You can’t afford…
Book Reviews, Popular Science
Book Review: 15 Million Degrees, by Lucie Green
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I have read popular science books and know about how scientists can work out what things are made of by studying the light that comes from them, and how this is directly related to the elements that things are made…
Book Reviews, Politics, Popular Science
Book Review: I think you’ll find its a bit more complicated than that, by Ben Goldacre
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I love books that talk about facts and peoples perception of reality. Not saying I understand why people think like they do (unless its the media, in which case they come up with the biggest headlines to catch attention who…
Book Reviews, Health
Book Review: Why we Sleep by Matthew Walker
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Matthew has researched sleep for over 30 years. I couldn’t believe how much knowledge can be obtained by different variations of sleep tests. Surely when you have done a couple you have done them all right? WRONG!! It also has…