The more this goes on, the more I wish the political journalists and commentators would get out of the way and let the science journalists take over the reins for a while. Not because the politics of… (View Post)

But just looking at proxies for economic activity, Sweden has shut down "quite a lot", the UK "really quite a lot" and NZ "completely". NZ's approach seems best sui… (View Post)

Denmark is doing roughly as well as the South West of England, by number of cases and deaths. They have similar populations, and similar population densities. Studying what happened in Germany, thoug… (View Post)

That's how most charitable giving works, though, be that the commercial operations that run the chuggers for the big charities (who take an obscene amount) to the enormous admin costs of most ch… (View Post)

I used to be deeply annoyed by the waste at the weekly parties in the Oxfam office next door to where I worked. And JustGiving being located in the Blue Fin building, competing with City developer sa… (View Post)