(I think that means Glory to Ukraine)

I was putting together another post on healthcare and costing - and somehow it morphed into three posts - one with some of the underlying data, one with what I intended to write about and made shorter and punchier, and one I think might be very important to a lot of people.

The one I intended to write was how cost effective the NHS is compared ( Read more... )

Or at any other time. It's not a family friendly game - and trying to play it as one means you miss the good parts it has.

Because I thought it would be too nerdy - even by the standard of a blog that puts 50 links into blog posts regularly. But apparently people want to know how much things cost under the NHS - complete with some examples of American private medical bills compared with NHS costs. (About a factor of ten different in the bill examples that make it to ( Read more... )

This time figuring out how the GamerGaters think and quite how their version of ethics works.

Taylor Swift - and I certainly wouldn't have expected 2000 words about her.

This time on fashion or military history. And how a certain mid 20th century empire shows some of how bad it was by its oft-praised uniforms.

I was going to post a fairly standard "Don't give to the Sally Army" post this year, having seen my first Red Kettle. But it turns out that the situation is improving. Possibly not fast enough, but things are changing. And changing for the better.

But then I never did post much in it and LJ appears to be more . Anyway, I've apparently gone back to blogging - starting with a long post about the causes of the protests in Ferguson.

My blogging's moved to Wordpress - and is a whole lot more prolific than my LJ ever was. My latest post is an attempt to explain exactly what happened with the CofE and female bishops this week.