One reading if these numbers really are true: they imply the protesters are fighting back. A non violent protest brutally put down by security forces generally only requires a hundred or so deaths be… (View Post)

What does society gain by that, apart from an out-group to ostracise? (View Post)

Quarterly GDP estimates go up and down like a yoyo. Even annual ones. So monthly figures are even more suspect. Over recent years they’ve tended to be revised upwards, under both governments. This is… (View Post)

Thinking back with fondness on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY Ah, the halcyon days, when satirists could amuse us all with an obviously ludicrous plot development. (View Post)

There’s not exactly much of the element of surprise about this one either. (View Post)