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Presumed Consent

9th January 2018 Going Postal 2,493

At the Conservative Party Conference in October 2017, PM Theresa May pledged to introduce a system of presumed consent for organ donation in England. A similar opt-out system has existed in Wales since 1st December [more…]

The Agentic State

15th October 2017 Going Postal 0

A few weeks ago someone on GP (sorry can’t remember who it was) mentioned that Experimenter, a 2015 film about social psychologist Stanley Milgram, was on Film 4, later that night. I recorded it and [more…]

The threat fae Russha

26th March 2018 0

Ah mind tha otha day there we aw’ thott the stashun wiz gettin’ attocked wi’ wan o’ they deadly nerff ayjunts fae Rusha. It wis aboot hoff eight in the mornen an’ the Sarge decidet [more...]
Understanding Economics in One Hour, Part Two

4th June 2018 0

Now, before we get going, I must warn you not to get sidetracked by this thing called “demand”. What is demand, anyway? It is an inexhaustible feature of the human condition: there is always something [more...]
A Nightmare On Downing Street: 24th June 2016

13th June 2016 0

It was the morning after the night before, or for Prime Minister David Cameron the morning after the nightmare before following Britain’s decision to vote to leave the European Union. Slumped with his head in [more...]
History – boring old stuff, innit, really ..

31st October 2016 0

Those of us who attended school when that meant actually learning instead of ‘exploring feelings’, when learning meant actually acquiring new knowledge which we could and would be asked about; when spelling and grammar was [more...]
Euclid and the origin of the accelerating universe

1st April 2016 0

Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion [more...]