This s a pretty impressive surge in 2020-2021 I wonder what happened? 😎

What we die from vs what we hear in the news. Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

A Twenty First Century Pandemic My latest discussion of the global pandemic. Sadly [except for those who speak it] it is in Portuguese. But anyone interested can find the English language version here. Muriel Blaive, PhD researchgate.net/.../396441058_…...

A Twenty First Century Pandemic - my look back at the global pandemic. Sadly [except for those who speak it] it is in Portuguese. But anyone interested can find the English language version here [now with working link] researchgate.net/publication/39…

Why rare earths matter This is just so good - cannot think of a better 10 minutes I have spent today trying to understand stuff

THOUGHTS ON THE GAZA WAR & THE WESTERN LEFT: A big part of the problem with the western left's approach to Oct. 7 & Netanyahu's brutal war on Gaza is that there has been a complete lack of recognition of the actual balance of forces throughout. 1/

New blog - do supermarkets really compete? Explores the illusion and reality of supermarket competition using the UK example with data and links. leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/how…

It's now looking quite likely that UK inflation being higher compared to G7 nations was a bit of a policy-induced blip. CPI may even return to target by the middle of 2026.

All singing, all dancing. Maybe time for I-Sage Trump?

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t!

How commuting to work has helped to undermine past social solidarities, organisations and communities New blog leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/pol…

Shameless hypocrisy A wk ago, Samir Zitouni, would have been one of those brown faces that have erased “our culture,”whose loyalty to this country is questionable. An Algerian immigrant working in a rail industry that is overstaffed Zitouni is the Best of British, Jenrick the …

The role of UK convenience stores New Blog - From Spar to One Stop to Costcutter and on to ethnic stores and the big supermarket chains and the half hidden role of Tesco leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/ope…

The attack on the Internet Archive by rapacious publishers is one of the great knowledge tragedies of our time It survived but 500,000 books are now inaccessible on it. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

And so the editor responsible for this front page is on tv now lecturing BBC on journalistic ethics Weird

Adam Tooze “ Mike Haynes’s review of Building a Ruin. The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform by Yakov Feygin (Harvard University Press, 2024) is worth checking out." All recommendations gratefully received 😎 jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet…

Can you see the problem Wes Streeting Department of Health and Social Care 🤷🏻‍♂️ 31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries On average people spend £400pa on hair GPs receive £169pa per patient