James' Empty Blog

 

Many years ago, I played chess as a schoolboy. Not all that brilliantly, but good enough for the school team which played in various competi...

I haven’t blogged in ages but have actually done a bit of work. Specifically, I eventually wrote up my new reconstruction of the Last Glacia...

A trip to Scotland last weekend to learn the ancient art of Victorian Marmalade Making from marmalade sensei, the Mother in Law. It turned o...

It occurred to me that the talk of perhaps bringing in restrictions some time in the future was probably poorly timed, in that we are probab...

Posting this mostly because some people seem to be under the misapprehension that the UK is doing really well at coping with COVID, at least...

This may be of interest to a relatively small number of readers, but it seems worth documenting that the relationship between power and equi...

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 ...