Hacked off with science…
– Daily stats: Covid-19 statistics are being (mis)used (cf Ben Walker in The New Statesman for example) to argue that…
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How (not) to run the country…
TheStickler generally prefers a more verbose form of communication, but sometimes it’s best to be brief: • For “quite some…
Covidiocy
TheStickler, thus far, has felt it impertinent and inappropriate to comment on the Covid-19 crisis, but maybe there are some…
From Infinity, to beyond…
So, exactly ten years ago, BT launched their new “Infinity” service, some of us wondered what they could possibly call…
UltraSuperUberMegaFast&Infi-furious…
“Hello, is that Mr Clegg?” “Yes, speaking. Who is this?” “No 10 here, but we’ll deny we ever made this…
Hardly Snot Off A Stick…
Last Friday, traffic to the west of London ground to a complete halt for the entire morning rush. Apparently up…
Careering towards extinction…
Yesterday’s second round of “indicative votes” produced no winner. Party politics, abstentions, defiant whipping and all the rest leaving us,…
Running down the country, not the clock…
Standing back and watching the #Brexitshambles (kudos to whoever thought that term up by the way) theStickler cannot help…
May: The Farce Be With You
It’s a tad late in the day for this advice, but in the absence of any other credible alternative…
Come What May?
Back in 2016 TheStickler predicted that the outcome of this whole sorry mess would be a realisation that Brexit on…