Speaking from my 2-room rented cottage, nah - and among colleagues the strongest advocates of lockdown have been young people who felt they had a whole life to enjoy which they didn't want to pu… (View Post)

The problem is that we're keeping track of two different things with one statistical series. 1. Is Covid/Omega a disease that puts most of those affected in hospital? Probably not, and the stati… (View Post)

All this is a bit like monarchists complaining that they don't like Prince Andrew. The point about morachy is that you don't have any say in the head of state. The point about private enter… (View Post)

How do you distinguish "live like adolescents" from "live in a different way from what I think is normal from my generation"? There was a R4 programme on spinsterhood yesterday, s… (View Post)

Ciba-Geigy (a predecessor to Novartis) for a while employed a flamboyant (English) senior salesman, who boasted that he would sometimes invite buyers to a vastly expensive meal, get them to sign the … (View Post)