If the ageing process, Brexit and Covid have taught me one
thing, it’s that making impulsive assumptions can result in public shaming and
not learning about the devil in the detail. It also allows people like Toby
Young, Julia Hartley Brewer and Laurence Fox to make money for being the voices
of lunatic reason.
So, with that in mind, I decided to not pay much attention to the outrage directed at footballers who had broken Covid-19 ...
I had always been of the belief that if an individual had a poor education, with the ability to read, learning is still a life choice. With the advent of the internet, this became even more the case. Good Information at your fingertips via Google, Wikipedia, and countless other sources.
I stuck with this belief right up until Covid19 appeared on
the scene. As it emerged as a public health crisis in the UK, I have read about
it nearly every ...
I have never
been much use at science and maths. I would sit there in the class and some
boring bloke would droll on about numbers and letters as I got lost in a
distant haze. I could do basic maths (arithmetic) quite well, but chemistry,
physics and biology were alien to me.
On the odd occasion I could just about follow it, then by the next lesson it
would be gone. This meant I fell further back as others pushed on. My dad (a nuclear
scient...
As we reached the end of April, I tried to reflect on what
we have learnt over the last six weeks of being in lockdown. Things have moved
on quickly. There are daily developments that swing from feeling hopeful to downright
depressing. Where is the way out of this and can we avoid being the world
leaders on death rates?
When the lockdown came, the consensus was that we could not
have seen this coming and the best we could do is be reactive. ...
A week has passed since I watched that Adrian Chiles (Drinkers Like Me) programme I have been going on about, meaning I have now managed to log my drinking habits in comparison to the week before, which came in at a rather shocking 49 Units.
Well, here is the good news, for me at least. Last week, without too much effort and perhaps the aid of novelty value, I reduced my consumption to 26.2 units which, whilst still approaching double the ...
