Is it using cross sectional data to advance tenuous casual claims? I hadn't noticed.

Great piece. Feels like an updating of the Two Cultures, which also uses the world of the oxbridge high table as an effective jumping of point for the chasm between scientific and critical cultures
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two...

This year's professional appraisal will essentially be a confession

Communism has triumphed

Missed one

The two I've read are A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River, both amazing books, my recommendation would be start with Biswas.
Mimic men, picked up on second hand bookshop last year, has been on the to-read pile for a while

It is one of his shorter works.....

For several weeks early in training I thought it was this Ivan Ilych, which, as one of the great pieces of literature on dying is also something every public health person would get something out of

I remember when the wannacry virus hit the NHS in England, to stop it spreading in Wales they basically shut down the NHS Wales email system, genuinely one of the most productive weeks of my entire career

My ma spent 20 mins eulogising the series to me yesterday, she also has high expectations of your intro, we are both looking forward to this!

"stop threatening me with a good time"

Saw this as a teenager on BBC2 and have always been surprised it's not more of a cultural reference point. Terrific film.

Came across some of WBE Du Bois's staggering visualisations of data at the Stedelijk over the summer - incredible body of work (and absent from a lot of the standard accounts of the dev of data viz)

(this is a different exhibition, but has examples - www.qbcentre.org.uk/w-e-b-du-boi...)

Having arrived here as the first series was airing, I can confirm that Barry is a remake of the popular sitcom 'Gavin and Stacey'

Could you both hold on for 2 mins?

Have popcorn to get.