The pandemic has amply demonstrated that a person can be eminent in their own field and yet surprisingly ignorant of things adjacent to it never mind far removed, and that now matter how smart and we… (View Post)

Today the CMO and CSA were making the point that even if one dose is not as effective as two, and no vaccine is 100% effective, the key aim of our current approach is to limit serious illness and dea… (View Post)

Even thinking about a tax on second-home owners will send the Telegraph apoplectic. Personally I suspect we are going to need to seriously rethink the whole taxation business, because it is abundantl… (View Post)

We live in a country where people got irrationally angry about the "pasty tax", and get angry about taxes on booze, fags, fat taxes, petrol etc. Even though taxing the hell out of these thi… (View Post)

It really is striking how much of the media is essentially innumerate and scientifically illiterate. I have had it up to here listening to the brieings, and hearing political correspondents questioni… (View Post)