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On Death and Nature
It’s been a while since I wrote anything and I have a bit of time while I’m waiting for some people to get back to me with answers (or even some funding), and there are other reasons for the quiet … Continue reading
Posted in churches, churchyards, covid19, Death, Uncategorized
Tagged churchyards, covid19, Death, nature
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Vaccines and Variants point to two alternative futures.
Variant. The word takes me back to sometime in the early 1970s and this car. Someone in the London suburb where we lived had a pale blue one, and I was fascinated by it. It certainly wasn’t a beautiful car, … Continue reading
Posted in covid-19, covid19, Uncategorized, vaccines
Tagged B117, covid19, vaccines, variant
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What a Year
I think “what a year” is how most people feel about 2020. It started with us wondering whether we would crash out of the EU without a deal, and ended with a deal being rushed through Parliament not only without … Continue reading
Covid19 makes the case for Universal Basic Income unarguable
Well it’s no surprise that we are once again teetering on the brink of a national lockdown in England, after yet another unnecessary delay which will lead to the death of thousands of people, either directly from Covid or as … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, covid19, Uncategorized, Universal Basic Income
Tagged covid19, lockdown, Universal Basic Income
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Ofqual Fiasco and Planning revolution point to where the Vote Leave Government gets its ideas
As I watched the A-level results fiasco unfold over the last week – the latest in a long line of shambolic Government u-turns – it got me thinking about how this Government actually decides on what policies it is going … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Speeches – Gramsci, Newts and the Instrumentarians
As we finally reach the point where the first wave of covid19 has effectively passed (excess deaths in the week to the 19th June were the same as the 5 year average – 65000 dead so far), it’s clear that … Continue reading
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