What do excess death graphs tell us?
Have a look at the graph below which summarises (excess) deaths per week in 24 European regions, roughly the EU, over the last few years....
How the competition delusion is ruining everything
https://youtu.be/w5WsRmgqe_M Above is a recording of me presenting a session on How the competition delusion is ruining everything. It's the presentation of this essay "Trust...
Edward Broughton: Mensch
I've mentioned Edward Broughton numerous times on this blog, a man of great humanity who responded to the plight of the Jewish internees who were...
Covid and the lessons of the Dreyfus affair
One can tell many stories of how current times resemble some earlier historical period. The conflict between nationalism and internationalism, as personified by the controversies...
Constant distractions are leading to major declines in top-level reasoning. What to do?
Till 20 year ago, IQ scores in the West increased about 3 points per decade ever since the 1920s, a phenomenon known as the “Flynn...
The descent into Darkness of the UK and Victoria. Quo Vadis?
[Bottom line: the conflicting forces now being created in the UK and Australia are truly frightening.] The UK government has just announced a nationwide return...
Knowing your arse from your Albo: how political parties might access the ‘blind break’ to get better leaders
[caption id="attachment_34260" align="alignright" width="352"] Source: Sortition in the History of Democracy, Slide 3[/caption] A lottery is a defensible way of making a decision when, and...