I hear you. This is what my mother wrote in a recent email: "I have no idea what is happening with cataract surgery. I have short sight, glaucoma, cataracts, and the beginnings of macular. Also … (View Post)

That's an example of a misleading statistic. Consider a hospital. To cut costs the hospital outsources its cleaning and catering services to private contractors. So we now have a hospital that d… (View Post)

Putin, Orban, Erdogan, Fico, etc - all the dictators and wannabee dictators. (View Post)

I would be surprised if it was Russian hackers. IT systems fail all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. Most organisations of any considerable scale will have dozens of different IT systems that… (View Post)

The Met Office does regular polling to find out how many people are aware of weather warnings, what they think of the forecasts, etc. I guess someone has argued that not enough people are hearing abo… (View Post)