So. It has happened. I am old

There’s no easy way round it.  I cannot read small print any more.  I had my eyes tested today and it’s official.  I need reading glasses.
That’s it.  Life over.

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Misleading stats

I know, I know, they don’t actually say it.  This is invideous sensationalist journalism of the very worst kind.  You are being led to believe that 10/35 diagnoses of prostate cancer result in death by prostate cancer.
Shonky Daily Telegraph article
The chaps at The Visible Hand can explain it I expect.  Basically the 10,000 are not [...]

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The Take

I’ve just watched the final episode of The Take which has been screening on Sky.  A sort of English Sopranos, of course I had to watch.  Set in the 80s and 90s, it’s a series of four episodes and follows a pair of East End villains, Freddie, who intuits and who uses extreme violence to [...]

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