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Miri |
September 18, 2022 |
10 CommentsMy express hope and desire is, "nothing", other than a day of ridiculous inconvenience, as nobody can do any shopping, enjoy any leisure, or, apparently, even ride their bike. However, I don't think one needs to be a crazy conspiracrank (though it always helps) to suggest that something else might be on the cards. I […]
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Miri |
September 15, 2022 |
9 CommentsFollowing a couple of "oh dear, it's the end of civilisation" events earlier this month, I suppose it was only thematic to discover yesterday that a man has been wielding an extremely large knife (more like a sword) around the centre of ordinarily sleepy Huddersfield in the middle of the day, whilst the local paper […]
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Miri |
August 25, 2022 |
8 CommentsThis article was originally published in March 2022. I republish it five months later, in tandem with mainstream reports that the "Homes for Ukraine" scheme has spiralled into unmitigated disaster, with Ukrainians left "homeless and abandoned" and hosts feeling "used and unappreciated". It seems, sadly, that my article aged well... I have just discovered that, […]
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Miri |
August 21, 2022 |
13 CommentsThis may seem a rather improbable title for a blog at this particular juncture in human history, whilst we descend ever-further into end-times apocalypse, replete with plagues, pestilence, and pub closures (no!) - but I really mean it. And I intend this article to cheer you up. But, I'm afraid I'm going to have to […]
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Miri |
August 11, 2022 |
4 CommentsContemplating the current dire apocalypse (but isn't the weather lovely?!), a rather troubling thought occurred to me: As the energy bills and other household costs continue to soar, the first thing people are going to cut down on to try and make ends meet is social and leisure activities that cost money, e.g., going to cafés, […]
By:
Miri |
August 3, 2022 |
9 CommentsI've mentioned before that, as a consummate conspiraquack, I naturally take a keen interest in astrology, and I have learned that the apparent defining characteristic of my lunar placing, Scorpio, is a tendency to dig and dig and dig at something, until it is well and truly excavated and exposed. As such, I like to […]
By:
Miri |
July 15, 2022 |
3 CommentsWith some considerable pomp and ceremony (or the internet equivalent thereof - a string of emojis 🥳🎉🍾), I am absolutely delighted to share with you our (Mark and my) new resource: INFORMED CONSENT MATTERS (If you've not been warned, you're not informed!) I wrote a bit more about what we were working on last week, […]
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Miri |
July 6, 2022 |
2 CommentsWith weary predictability, "Covid" is back in the headlines (look, evil overlords, have you got unpaid interns doing your screenwriting or something? These 'Plague Mutates!' plot twists are getting so derivative and dull...). "In pretending Covid is over, the UK government is playing a dangerous game," scolds The Guardian sanctimoniously, in an article by one […]
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Miri |
June 25, 2022 |
15 CommentsI knew something was awry on the world stage when The Independent declared yesterday, with its usual subtle finesse and understatement, that - even for women who are pregnant by choice and want their baby - the historic overturning of the American Roe vs. Wade legislation (which has triggered laws making abortion illegal in 13 […]
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Miri |
June 19, 2022 |
4 CommentsOne of the most valuable lessons I ever learned about how the world really works, was in 2019, when I read an article in the Daily Mail, entitled: 'Research scientist, 28, reveals her horror at discovering she had NO childhood jabs because her mother was an anti-vaxxer'. Apart from the fact that the title self-evidently […]