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A Covid Debrief

11th January 2021 Godfrey Bloom 5167 Comments

I enjoyed a most enjoyable discussion on the numbers with the informed, articulate & fragrant Rebecca Butler secretary to the Free Speech Campaign, last evening sponsored by Open Dialogus.  As a number crunching nerd myself [more…]

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Protecting The NHS, Hepatitis C, Covid-19 and The Rest. A Personal Account

17th November 2020 Colin Cross 4499 Comments

Sixty nine years ago, give or take a week or so, I was delivered into this world. My mother gave birth to me in what was then known as “the huts”, a collection of prefabricated [more…]

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Economic consequences – always ask: Who benefits?

2nd November 2020 Emile Woolf 2642 Comments

Things don’t just “happen”. Everything in the passing parade of phenomena is the result of something that preceded it: this is the world of cause and effect. Those appointed to hold the levers of power [more…]

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Have you had a Good Pandemic?

23rd September 2020 Going Postal 3967 Comments

Have you had a Good Pandemic? Well, dear Puffins, after six months of unemployment and six months before that having not much to do at work, I am soon going to start a new job [more…]

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Indy Pedant Geeks And The Temple Of Our Ennaychess

20th September 2020 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 2165 Comments

A veritable curse has been placed upon the glorious and gracious Ms Geeks, a tribulation to the right leg that only a blessing and a prayer from Our Sacred Ones in Our Ennaychess can cure.  [more…]

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A pint of your finest please!

12th August 2020 Going Postal 3263 Comments

On the last Friday in July, on that stinking hot day with temperatures hitting 35, I lay recumbent in a hammock-like chair, watching the pint pour slowly.    There was a gentle breeze as I counted [more…]

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The Cancer Time Bomb

10th August 2020 Jonathon Davies 3524 Comments

A rather grim topic, but one which is very relevant and that I feel needs highlighting. As some of you know my dad passed away at the end of last year from cancer. Much has [more…]

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Fake Data Qui Bono

6th August 2020 Godfrey Bloom 2068 Comments

My final article in my wee trilogy on data interpretation I examine who benefits from the manipulation of state data. It is usually sound policy when investigating the often bizarre antics of the state to [more…]

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A cornucopia of intellectual Onanism

3rd August 2020 Rookwood 1794 Comments

I’m quite sure there are a few readers at Going Postal who get frustrated with my writing style, or indeed any commentator who dares stray from the rugged pathway of the dry as dust academic [more…]

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