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COVID-19: what health experts could and could not predict | Nature Medicine: Devi Sridhar in Nature: “Nearly a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, it is time to look back and assess what could have been predicted by health experts.”
(tags: science covid19 pandemic medicine)
I thrived on the tension and drama of British politics. Then I had a heart attack | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian: “I lived for the nerve-shredding rollercoaster of Westminster. But the stress got under my skin, and into my blood”
(tags: twitter Politics brexit journalism health)
I’d love to ignore ‘Covid sceptics’ and their tall tales. But they make a splash and have no shame | Media | The Guardian: Neil O’Brien on the fantasies of those in the media, and beyond, who oppose lockdown. There have been a few articles like this recently, hopefully it marks a tide rising against the loonies.
(tags: covid19 science lockdown pandemic)
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks – Quillette: Another demolition of the smiley face crew.
(tags: twitter pandemic covid19 science)

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No, 90% Of Coronavirus Tests Are Not ‘False Positives’ And This Is Why | HuffPost UK: Bayes for the win.
(tags: mathematics covid19 bayes-theorem)
The UK Government’s Vaccine Taskforce: strategy for protecting the UK and the world – The Lancet
Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity? | The BMJ: Non-bonkers article on pre-existing immunity.
(tags: covid19 coronavirus immunity)
The importance of Nigel Farage and other political hobgoblins – The Law and Policy Blog: “Farage is a political hobgoblin.
He appears where there are cracks between the government and the governed, as a purveyor of easy answers.”
(tags: ukip brexit nigel-farage covid19)
The BMJ interview: Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, on covid-19 | The BMJ
Boris Johnson: The gambler, by Tom Bower book review: “Boris Johnson: an amoral figure for a bleak, coarse culture
By Rory Stewart” Oof!
(tags: boris-johnson politics)

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Boris Johnson cannot win the battle for the union | The New European: “A once great power carving itself up into smaller and smaller units, for no discernible purpose. That is what English nationalism has created. A man alone in a raft, lost at sea, insisting he is a navy.”
(tags: scotland england boris brexit Politics)
The Scourge of Hygiene Theater – The Atlantic: Deep cleans don’t help when most transmission is airbourne.
(tags: covid19 epidemic hygiene)
Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America – The Atlantic: Not just Trump, but a lot of Trump.
(tags: usa covid19 politics epidemic)

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Supreme Court ruling is the natural result of Boris Johnson’s constitutional vandalism | News | The Times: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court ruling: Parliament is the forum for compromise. Boris Johnson tried to circumvent it. So the judges had to make its role explicit.
(tags: law brexit court boris-johnson)

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‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain | Politics | The Guardian: Weirdly wants to make “remainist” a thing, but otherwise interesting.
(tags: brexit remain politics)

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The Ham of Fate | by Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books: Boris skewered.
(tags: eu brexit boris-johnson politics doom)

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Why every possible Brexit outcome spells disaster for the Conservative Party | Prospect Magazine: We can but hope, I suppose.
(tags: conservative brexit Politics)

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There’s a lot wrong with this viral list about the Lisbon Treaty – Full Fact

A large number of our readers have asked us to factcheck a list of claims about the Lisbon Treaty, or “what will actually happen if we stay in the EU”, which has gone viral on social media.

The list has appeared in numerous versions across different platforms since mid-December. The text at the beginning and end is often different, but the central list of claims is virtually identical across most of the versions we’ve seen.

Much of it is wrong. The list is a mixture of false claims, and claims that have some truth but could be misleading given the context.
(tags: brexit politics lisbon propaganda eu europe)

Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful – Ex Urbe

(tags: stoicism philosophy)

How to Buy a Car Without Interacting With a Human – The Toast

I wonder whether this works in the UK…
(tags: shopping cars money car)

Debugging Vim by example – David Winterbottom

“This post illustrates a range of debugging and profiling approaches for Vim by walking through real issues I’ve recently investigated, diagnosed and resolved. “
(tags: vim debugging)

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Quine’s Naturalism – 3:AM Magazine: “Sense data, Quine came to realize, are just as much theoretical posits as the electrons, bacteria, and chromosomes we supposedly construct from them. We do not see ‘patches of green, brown, and grey’ when we are walking through a forest; we see trees, logs, and squirrels. This is why it requires severe training to teach amateur painters to reproduce their everyday three-dimensional view of the world on a two-dimensional canvas.”
(tags: quine philosophy naturalism science epistemology)
Parliament is now at war with government – and it’s winning: “The content of Theresa May’s defeats over the last couple of days isn’t particularly meaningful, but the fact they happened at all suggests that parliament’s guerrilla war against the government has started. And it seems to be winning.”
(tags: constitution brexit politics parliament)

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Everything you need to know about the final weeks of Brexit in five minutes: Things are about to get interesting.
(tags: brexit politics europe doom)

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A very British dream | Richard Seymour on Patreon: “Problem number one for the Conservatives is that they no longer have any idea how to administer capitalism. No viable long-term growth strategy avails. They can’t address the financial sector without hurting their allies in the City. They can’t address the crisis of productivity and investment without more state intervention than they’re willing to accept. They can’t address the housing crisis or the precarious debt-driven economy without harming the interests of home owners. They can’t build new support in the rustbelts on an anti-immigrant basis, without sacrificing affluent swing voters and particularly ethnic minority voters in big cities and marginals.”
(tags: Politics conservatives may brexit)
We Don’t Do That Here: A neutral-sounding way to inform someone that they’ve crossed a line.
(tags: community morality)
A Bluer Shade of White Chapter 1, a frozen fanfic | FanFiction: Do you want to build a self-modifying snowman?
(tags: Singularity fiction story frozen olaf)

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Brexit As Expressed Through The Medium Of Aliens Quotes.: gonzo21: “Newt: We’d better get back ’cause it’ll be dark soon and Theresa May mostly comes at night. Mostly.”
Via andrewducker
(tags: aliens funny brexit)

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Why Stop Funding Hate deserves answers – Creative Review: “The Stop Funding Hate campaign is gaining traction and giving brands difficult decisions to make.” If you want something you can do, this is something you can do.
(tags: daily-mail newspapers hate daily-express politics)
Why the economy can’t explain Trump or Brexit – OpenLearn – Open University: Authoritarian social attitudes and the rate of change of minority population in an area are better predictors of Trump/Brexit voting than poverty.
(tags: trump brexit psychology authoritarianism politics)
Responding to Tim Keller’s “Making Sense of God” Talk: A shorter and better version than my own rebuttal of the book the talk was based on.
(tags: tim-keller Religion philosophy Atheism)
The President and the bomb | Restricted Data: The US military won’t stop a president from using nuclear weapons, the system is designed to make sure they can do so, not to prevent them.
(tags: politics military nuclear president)

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Blue Lines Revisited – Obsolete Units Surrounded By Hail: An A to Z of Brexit.
(tags: brexit politics eu UK ukip)

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Charles I, Brexit and the Royal Prerogative: A Queen’s Counsel on recent court decision and the royal prerogative. The post has the QC who wrote it answering questions: it sounds like the Government’s referendum leaflets promised something they didn’t have the power to deliver without Parliament’s approval.
(tags: brexit law court prerogative)

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Bit Twiddling Hacks: A collection of code snippets for doing useful things (sign extension, determine whether a number is a power of two, and so on).
(tags: bit-twiddling programming algorithms c hacks twiddling)
Anti-Brexit traitors outed on twitter: UKIP voters in “shit thick” shocker. Also features Louise Mensch.
(tags: twitter ukip funny brexit satire)
Horse! | Start here: See horse, Say Horse! – The Rules of Horse!: Horse!
(tags: funny game horse)

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John Lanchester · Brexit Blues · LRB 28 July 2016: The LRB takes stock of where we’re up to.
(tags: brexit eu economics Politics)

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Fintan O’Toole: Brexit fantasy is about to come crashing down: “Brexit is not so much a peasants’ revolt as a deeply strange peasants’ – and – landlords’ revolt.
It is a Downton Abbey fantasy of toffs and servants all mucking in together. But when the toffs, as the slogan goes, “take back control”, the underlings will quickly discover that a fantasy is exactly what it is.
The disaffected working- class voter in Sunderland, rightly angry about being economically marginalised and politically disenfranchised, will wait in vain for the magical billions that are supposedly going to be repatriated from Brussels to drop from the clear blue skies of a free England.”
(tags: britain eu brexit referendum politics)
There are liars and then there’s Boris Johnson and Michael Gove | Nick Cohen | Opinion | The Guardian: ‘The Brexit figureheads had no plan besides exploiting populist fears and dismissing experts who rubbished their thinking.’
(tags: brexit eu Politics referendum)
Worrying Signs: Recording post-referendum incidents of racism. Not all leavers are racist, but all th racists voted leave, and now they think they’ve won.
(tags: eu referendum Politics racism brexit)
I want my country back: Laurie Penny, you magnificent bastard: “When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like David Cameron’s face.”
(tags: brexit Politics referendum eu)
“I want to stop something exploitative, divisive and dishonest” — conversation with a Leaver — Medium: Interesting discussion between a young Remainer and his Lexiter father.
(tags: eu referendum Politics lexit brexit)