For those of you who are interested, it's 10 days now until The Mandalorian returns to Disney+. Best thing to come out of Disney Star Wars yet, and the second season looks set to be even better, with...
One of the more bizarre stories in recent weeks has been this one: Trump is apparently seriously considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower that was such a big story seven years ago....
It is pretty obvious why I'm posting this: I'm attempting, perhaps mistakenly, to draw at least some analogy between the debate then, when women were fighting for decades to gain access to what we now...
For the two of you who may care, my ongoing personal quest to understand the latest UK Covid figures and make predictions about the future continues. Things are naturally complicated by the fact that...
It was hard not to read the thread about AB members and how lockdown has affected them without being deeply moved, especially by the tragic stories there. It got me wondering if there was a random act...
As is usually the case, the answers are "possibly" and "fairly, maybe?". But this is also an interesting video to see how statistical analysis can be used to even try to answer the question....
Should the petty crime industry be the next target for a Government bailout?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213795/Burglaries-plummet-30-cent-parts-Britain-coronavirus-hit.html...
A highly relevant video providing a hopefully easily watchable introduction to how to model disease spread. NB: plenty of disclaimers from the video poster himself. Toy models only. But still highly...
On its current trajectory, the US will record more confirmed cases than China by Friday, and should pass around 1000 total deaths from Covid-19 at around the same time. Some of this is down to...
Looks like TTT might be set to lose his bet...* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49549960 *Reference to https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1668562.html . If you want to actually make...
As I type two more ministers, David Mundell and Claire Perry, and Leader of the House Mel Stride, have stepped down from Cabinet roles, presumably because they were pushed -- joining a long list of...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49060280
So relieved to hear that all the puppies have been saved, and that potentially the culprit(s) has/have been caught and identified....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7219283/Swedish-mother-50-blames-Brexit-stress-drink-drive-crash-ditch.html Is there any more reason needed to end this disaster? The effects are real. The...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-afghanistan/trump-says-he-is-worried-about-terrorist-attacks-if-us-troops-leave-afghanistan-idUSKCN1TX042 Like Bush and Obama before him, Trump hoped that...