Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19. On the one hand I’m impressed by sceptics like Germany’s Professor … Read More »
I’m neither a member of the Socialist Equality Party, host of World Socialist Website, nor likely to become one. I find SEP good on some things (e.g. defence of Syria, where most of the left takes at face value an … Read More »
CV-19 as fictitious is not the only conspiracy theory in town. Just yesterday a fellow dog walker, a likeable bloke and seemingly sane, gave his view of the corona virus as unleashed by China. The “communists”, he told me, are … Read More »
There’s been more than one reason for my long silence on CV-19, so readers might forgive me – if they forgive me on nothing else – for so long an introduction to my first read of the month, by the … Read More »
Two weeks ago an essay appeared on the Lockdown Sceptics site by one Alexis Fitzgerald. Headed, The Left-Wing Case Against Lockdown, it began thus: I consider myself to be left-wing on virtually every political topic: I am a socially-liberal social … Read More »
The thrust of my recent post, If only I wasn’t a commitment phobe, argued that the science and its underlying data are insufficiently developed or clear to support the levels of certainty professed on all sides of a somewhat tribalist … Read More »
Science matches theories with evidence and attempts to falsify them, so they can be refined to better match reality. A theory from a group of scientists is just that: a theory. Believing the opinion of that group without critical verification … Read More »
Posted on behalf of Chik Collins and Peter Jones, as follow up to their earlier call No unsafe return to work! Stay at home! Unite across the UK to save lives and to work for a socially just reconstruction! In … Read More »
Here’s a question that’s foxed millions. Can you spot the odd one out in this list? George Bush’s discovery that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, Trump’s discovery that Assad used poison gas at Douma (with the OPCW leant on … Read More »
A few years ago I was on a UCU picket line for a one day strike at Sheffield Hallam University. I was now retired but remained a union member, and had shown up to do my bit. Picketers came and … Read More »