Trigger warning - this has caused great offence in some Nat circles - for an article in a Student rag, no less, for which an apology has been extracted. Principle offence? The author is an English st… (View Post)

Reading Anne Applebaum’s “Red Famine: Stalin’s war on Ukraine” - from the very beginning of the USSR Ukraine wanted independence - they wanted communism, not Bolshevism, Kyiv not Moscow - and many Bo… (View Post)

I talked with an Estonian analyst who has access to info and who I regard as one of the best we have here. His main conclusion: "The danger is far from over but there is reason for a very cautio… (View Post)

Global distribution of estimated excess mortality rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the cumulative period 2020–21 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02796-3/fullt… (View Post)

Thread: V. important paper published in the Lancet - the first peer-reviewed global estimates of excess deaths (the most reliable way to compare Covid deaths) over first 2 years of pandemic with find… (View Post)