Category: Humour
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Brand names for COVID-19 vaccines, rated and ranked
By now, over 7 billion doses of the various COVID-19 vaccines have been given worldwide, and it’s proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are safe, effective and have a dramatic effect on COVID case rates, transmission, disease and mortality. They are arguably one of the greatest scientific success stories of our modern […]
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Corbyn and I
Jo Maugham QC, one of Twitter’s most prominent critics of Jeremy Corbyn (and board member of the Bright Blue conservative think tank) set the social network on fire on Saturday morning, with his incendiary claim that Corbyn’s statement of “I don’t drink” in an interview with Der Spiegel was false. In fact, he said that […]
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Some bullshit about dogs that played the piano in order to fight the USSR during the Cold War
Backstory: My partner was writing an essay, and I wanted to prove that 2000 words was a relatively small goal and that I could in fact write an essay about a concept that didn’t exist, which is doubtless harder than writing about something that verifiably exists in the real world. So I wrote this in […]