February 2015

A nice tweet: The two ways of doing a map of ISIS control. A: The Big Red Blob. B: The Thin Red Lines. pic.twitter.com/bElTBdzozv — Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) February 20, 2015 Let’s have a closer look at that right-hand map, because it’s a real beauty. There are people. Where the people are, that’s the important…

Read More A more sophisticated version of something I made earlier

So USS. It strikes me that this was, in the end, a total and avoidable mess and the UCU should take a lot of responsibility. The only way to find out what was going on was to check a friend of a friend’s facebook page. The only campaign resources were, well, whatever you came up…

Read More Looking ahead to the #defenduss 60-day consultation

What is it with David Cameron and appointments? Back in March 2012 I made the point that he keeps phoning a friend, and getting back the name of a good criminal, bungler, or crank. We’ve had Steve Hilton and his brilliant ideas, before he failed-up into a better paid gig in California. He recommended Emma…

Read More Bad picker

Opening the tube for the new Rugby League season, here’s a BBC Radio Leeds programme about the long and awkward process of getting back to a league structure with promotion and relegation rather than more or less dodgy “franchising” or “licensing” processes. listen to ‘BBC Radio Leeds – RL restructure documentary’ on audioBoom That said,…

Read More #rugbyleague – back to promotion and relegation with #visionaryjohn

So we blogged about the abject failure of privatisers Circle and Hinchingbrooke hospital, the one where they boasted of using tills like the ones in Argos: And whilst waiting in A&E, an unusually high number of patients (double the national average) left before being seen, fed up of waiting – and presumably unimpressed by the…

Read More Errr…Tesco. Yes. That must be it. Do I get a biscuit?