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Continue reading →: Probability and credulity
At 4 pm this afternoon 34 horses and their jockeys will thunder around the racecourse at Aintree to compete in one of the most prestigious races in the horse racing calendar. Picking a winner will be tricky because the horses have to jump 30 fences and race over 4 miles…
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Continue reading →: Apprentice economists
Not since Maggie and Ronnie tried to impress the Western world with Reaganomics have we seen such disastrous policies brought in by the USA and the UK. Liz Truss plunged the UK economy into a nose dive by cutting taxes and increasing public borrowing on a massive scale. Her premiership…
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Continue reading →: Crisis? What crisis
Living on a small island can make you adopt insular attitudes towards what’s happening in the rest of the world. War in Europe, extreme weather disasters, superpower dominance…not my problem. The EU has an important role in opposing Russian expansionist aggression, and pushing back against Trump’s protectionist import tariffs. It…
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Continue reading →: Tariffs
Deal or no deal politician, Donald Trump wants to boost the USA’s trade balance by making imports more expensive He would also like India to buy more wheat and other grains. Why would they want to disadvantage their agriculture industry? The average size of an Indian farm is about a…
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Continue reading →: Trolleyed
After a pleasant afternoon in my favourite Italian bar/restaurant I walked up the Lisburn Road towards a pedestrian crossing. A woman with a trolley said something that I didn’t hear and then rammed my bike with her trolley. She got angry and kicked my bike while I demonstrated that she…
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Continue reading →: Established coffee
There are two very good coffee emporia in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast, Neighbourhood is one, the other is Established. I tried the espresso at Established this morning and was warned by the barista that it was intense. He was right but it wasn’t bitter and went well with the…
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Continue reading →: It is written
Or is it? The idea that everything is the way it is because it could not be any other way seems counterintuitive. The odds of our planet being exactly the right distance from the sun with an atmosphere favourable to flora and fauna is highly unlikely. So one might rely…
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Continue reading →: Nevus
Four years ago I attended the Diabetic Eye Clinic and they found a ‘freckle’ on my left retina. The medical term is nevus, but in any case they are quite common and just need monitoring. The staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital are very friendly and explained everything as they…
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Continue reading →: Freeloading Europe
Trump’s Administration goes from bad to worse in its diplomatic gaffes. The group chat revelations to an American journalist portrayed Europe as spongers off the USA. Europe is in a precarious position. Putin has shown that he will not stop at clandestine interference in democratic elections to install Soviet style…
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