Tag: ireland
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10 things we know more about than the level of serviced land
We don’t know how much serviced land, land ready for housing, there is. The last annual data series end in 2012, with a survey (in a different format) from 2014.. But we do know more recent data on the following 10 things, none of which , I would argue, are more important than solving the…
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How did that prediction pan out, Gerry?
The old joke, and maybe not so funny, is that economic forecasting is there to make astrology seem accurate. To economic forecasting we might consider adding the dire premonitions of ISAG Gerry Killeen, who is a world class expert in malaria (bacterial, insect borne) not covid (viral, aerosol) . https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40255088.html was a prediction on 31-March,…
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“Looks like rain, Ted”
Willing suspension of disbelief is a fine thing when one is reading a magic realist novel or watching a MCU caper. Its harder to take when listening to the breathless “be grand” platitudes of the government around Summer 2021.
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Where are the top 2% of scientists? And who are the Irish amongst them?
Of course, that presupposes that we can identify them! A group of researchers at Stanford have made a recent attempt to do just that. The paper is available, unpaywalled, here. They produce a composite indicator to rank authors. So where are the leading authors? Unsurprisingly, the USA, UK and Germany come out tops. But Ireland…
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Covid Second Wave – this time is different…mostly
So below we see the 7 day moving averages of daily new cases, deaths, hospitalisations and admissions to ICU. These are expressed as a % of the first wave peak. Clearly this time is very differnet, thankfully. But, at a national level the response to a clearly very different situation is exactly the same. Why…
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Living in a gelotopoicracy
The absolute rolling clown show that is the travel “green list” shows very clearly that when it comes to how to navigate Ireland out of the pandemic induced mess, there is no plan. There is no plan for a plan. We live in a gelotopoicracy. Actually that is unfair, as when the clowns come out…
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a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland
Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland (please do….)
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a-Fisking we will go: Hugh Bennet Brexit Central version
Apparently Hugh is trained in Cognitive Anthropology. From his musings in BrexitCentral he never did any fieldwork in Northern Ireland. Its touchingly naive but ultimately bonkers stuff. Let us begin
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a-Fisking we shall go : Kate Hoey in Brexit Central edition
Another weekend, another hysterical, breathless screeching Brexit bromide begging to be fisked. This week it is arch brexiteer Kate Hoey, in the pompously self-important “Brexit Central”. So, a fisking we shall go.
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A-Fisking we shall go : Paul Goldsmith on Brexit (HuffPoUK Edition)
Friday night is FISKING NIGHT! This week we have another clueless, but no doubt pleasant and earnest brit, opining on why we should come home to mama…