Mortality Complicator | Going Postal

SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 1

17th February 2020 Rookwood 0

They say a week is a long time in politics, and an identical maxim could be applied to the field of commentary concerning emerging diseases. Not only has 2019-nCoV been renamed SARS-CoV-2, with a payload [more…]

2019-nCoV

3rd February 2020 Rookwood 0

I am not a doctor, epidemiologist, or indeed a statistician. Those who read my posts realise my aversion to “Monday Maffs” is bordering on the pathological. I do however have one skill-set that allows to [more…]

Germans research ways to chemically control recalcitrant natives

12th March 2018 0

I originally planned to entitle this ‘Through a Scanner, Dumbly’. Unfortunately the title, though mildly amusing, would distract from the deadly seriousness of the topic. I’m desperately hoping that this is another Sokal or “conceptual [more...]
The Rendezvous

29th December 2019 0

It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more...]
Election of Speaker of the House of Commons

4th November 2019 0

Anyone hoping for someone better should be prepared to be disappointed. My bet’s on Bryant, Harperson is also an obvious candidate. Not since the Great Stink has Parliament been so malodorous. Lindsay Hoyle is the [more...]
Joe Malone, Part Twenty

2nd July 2019 0

“Is that the letter?” Lady Vanessa asked him. She had been very quiet. But suddenly sat forwards and peered at the envelope. To Sir Marmon-Herrington Bixby esq. Which was normal enough. Though the word, WANKPUPPET [more...]
The devil is always in the detail

15th June 2019 0

Cast your mind back to the morning of Friday the 2nd of May 1997. The British electorate had overwhelmingly swept Anthony Charles Lynton Blair to power, in a landslide victory that conjures imagery of a [more...]