James' Empty Blog

One year on and there's been a slew of articles revisiting the events of the past year. I was going to ask what has prompted this little...

There is currently lot of debate on how and when we lift restrictions, and the risks of this. There are several unknowns that may affect th...

There’s been quite an amazing turnaround since my last blog post . At the time I wrote that, the Govt was insisting that schools would open ...

NB: below calculation was made and published on Monday 4th, when schools had just been opened and before the latest lockdown was announced,...

The summary is, yes it's real, yes it's serious, and the early signs are that it could be very difficult to maintain any semblance o...

Being only a small and insignificant organisation, we would like to take this rare opportunity to blow our own trumpets. Blue Skie...

I’ve grumbled for a while about the ONS analyses of their infection survey pilot (pilot? isn’t it a full-blown survey yet?) without doing a...

Something I've been meaning to do for a while is look at how well the SAGE estimates of the growth rate of the epidemic have matched up ...

A lot of different estimates of the growth rate (R) of the epidemic have come out in the last couple of days, so here's a summary of whi...