#History

Quarantine? What quarantine?

Oh, that quarantine...

How Trump ignored advice from Dr Fauci

He's a loser.

The ever-rising Middle Classes

We are many, you are few

Another thing you need to remember about history

Be suspicious of history books where economies rise and armies clash but men never do

One thing you need to remember about history

Everybody lies. Two versions of history in collision

World War C – Covid19 and measles

We think of measles as "just" a childhood illness - yet it killed millions in the Americas and Polynesia.

Review: Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway (2010)

How the Doubt Cabal deliberately delayed action on Global Heating for 30 years

Cities and retail parks

I really hate shopping, especially if I have to do it at shopping centres.

The very first Brexiteer?

Do you think Brexit is a new idea? It isn't. Henry VIII thought of it first.

“The Stripping of the Altars” by Eamon Duffy

Talking about Sir Robert Carey and Shakespeare

Death’s Dark Sieve – child mortality and the futurologists