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Roger Watson

Covid vaccine

What Price a Vaccine Against Hypocrisy?

Naturally, the news that the Trump administration had sacked the complete membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) and replaced it with new members was greeted with consternation by Global Health Now last week. AP News reported the ousted members as saying that ‘rigorous science is being abandoned’. They are also concerned that the credibility of and […]

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Net Zero Ponzi scheme 

I don’t know if children still learn the cumulative rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly. Perhaps not as it could be seen as advocating exploitation of animals. In case you have forgotten, it goes like this: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a

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Comedy in a Time of Compliance

I have almost given up on late-night comedy on BBC Radio 4. In fact, I have almost given up on the station entirely. The news is biased, and the comedy—studiously avoiding the tripwires of the woke and hypersensitive—is rarely funny. One of my favourite programmes used to be Dead Ringers, the topical satirical impressions show fronted by

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From the Man Cave IX 

The portable man cave is being dismantled and packed ready for transport back to the UK. Tomorrow, I fly from Chongqing to Hong Kong and then to Manchester. Very familiar with this journey, I know on the way out of China and through Hong Kong I can expect to be processed by smart young men

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From the Man Cave VIII

The man cave has upped sticks and moved from Hong Kong to mainland China. I am however a day late arriving here, as Hong Kong was hit by a typhoon on Sunday – the day I was originally due to fly to China. A Signal No 10 warning was issued and briefly intensified up to

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From the Man Cave VII

This does not come from the man cave as I am working in the Far East for two weeks: one in Hong Kong and one in mainland China. However, the man cave is more a state of mind than a location. You can take the man out of the man cave…etc.  My office window overlooks

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From the Man Cave VI

Wimbledon is upon us and, with Mrs Watson hogging the television and the means to control it, it is on all the time. Is there a stupider game than tennis? Probably not. But I still like to watch it. But only Wimbledon; no other competition interests me. Ace serves, drop shots, forehand smashes, volleys, passing

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From the Man Cave V

It is now safe to put the TV on again. Glastonbury is over. What passes for music now seems to be either a couple of black guys with their shirts off exhorting people to “kill the IDF” or some Irish arseholes* in balaclavas saying much the same thing. Too bad if you don’t agree. Music,

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