How are pollsters adjusting for what looks like a +60% turnout? I seem to recall much of the Brexit polling under counting leavers who hadn’t bothered voting for years. Presumably we should balance o… (View Post)

If we are going to make sweeping generalisations about age groups, I’d say that the baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation of all time. I wrote the other day about how QE has been weap… (View Post)

Get a grip. The virus has now infected well in excess of 100 million people worldwide and there are presently single digit numbers of recorded cases of reinfection. (View Post)

What is your goal? It’s worth noting that the proportion of ICU patients that die of covid has already reduced by about a third since March/April, due to quite simple tweaks in intervention. When we … (View Post)

It’s all straightforward really. Something is fundamentally broken with Western capitalism, with risk taking disincentivised, capital holders getting ever more capital and those relying on an income … (View Post)