@jobbingleftieh.bsky.social
A jobbing electic historian with an interest in loads of things including demography, epidemiology, and all the debates about capitalism.
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Life is an infectious disease with a 100% mortality rate.
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
Don’t listen to medical science! The advances in medical research have not affected our lifespan
We are all going to die. Human life has a 100% mortality rate. So wrote Johan Giesecke in this short article in 1992. After Anders Tengell, Giesecke – whose book on Modern Infectiou…
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Life is an infectious disease with a 100% mortality rate.
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
Life is an infectious disease with a 100% mortality rate.
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
Don’t listen to medical science! The advances in medical research have not affected our lifespan
We are all going to die. Human life has a 100% mortality rate. So wrote Johan Giesecke in this short article in 1992. After Anders Tengell, Giesecke – whose book on Modern Infectiou…
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Life is an infectious disease with a 100% mortality rate.
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
It's an old joke but it's important. Here in a new translation is a 1992 short article by Johan Giesecke - who played a key role in Sweden's covid response explaining the limits of medicine.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/d...
Am I the only one with two accounts to think that the overblown rise of bluesky has opened up a huge gap for the right in Twitter.
It seems to be our version of Orwell's inside the whale. We are cushioned in a space that exactly fits us.
It seems to be our version of Orwell's inside the whale. We are cushioned in a space that exactly fits us.
December 23, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Am I the only one with two accounts to think that the overblown rise of bluesky has opened up a huge gap for the right in Twitter.
It seems to be our version of Orwell's inside the whale. We are cushioned in a space that exactly fits us.
It seems to be our version of Orwell's inside the whale. We are cushioned in a space that exactly fits us.
The elections petitions still increasing but thought this a fun bar chart
November 25, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The elections petitions still increasing but thought this a fun bar chart
Circulation data suggests very similar for UK
November 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Circulation data suggests very similar for UK
My first totally free data for Bluesky - the rise of drinking at home in the Britain aka the decline in indoor alcohol sales. Obviously lockdown slump but a long term decline before that.
What is the social significance of the shift from the pub?
www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...
What is the social significance of the shift from the pub?
www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...
November 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM
My first totally free data for Bluesky - the rise of drinking at home in the Britain aka the decline in indoor alcohol sales. Obviously lockdown slump but a long term decline before that.
What is the social significance of the shift from the pub?
www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...
What is the social significance of the shift from the pub?
www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...
Oh well - interesting data from the US
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Oh well - interesting data from the US
For any historians out there is is an interesting free to download collection of essays
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
www.bloomsburycollections.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
For any historians out there is is an interesting free to download collection of essays
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Not sure how long this will be free to read but recommended
This review of Shipman’s latest by @samfr.bsky.social is really astute because it says what so many people miss about Sunak - he was an “ideologue in technocrat clothing”
Out by Tim Shipman review — a tale of Tory arrogance, narcissism and incompetence
www.thetimes.com/article/16a6...
Out by Tim Shipman review — a tale of Tory arrogance, narcissism and incompetence
www.thetimes.com/article/16a6...
Out by Tim Shipman review — a tale of Tory arrogance, narcissism and incompetence
The fourth book in Tim Shipman’s Brexit saga is a detailed chronicle of the Conservatives’ self-destruction — “a bleak cavalcade of some of the worst people to infect Britain’s body politic”
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Not sure how long this will be free to read but recommended
This is fascinating on shaky data. Age data is some of the most dodgy demographic data - interesting argument that checking for consistency is not always helpful if the data is consistently wrong. 😱
www.science.org/content/arti... Blue zones, supposed havens of longevity, have become a global brand. But skeptics think they rest on shaky science #longevity #longevità
Do ‘blue zones,’ supposed havens of longevity, rest on shaky science?
Critics say extraordinary life spans reflect faulty record keeping, not healthy lifestyles
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 AM
This is fascinating on shaky data. Age data is some of the most dodgy demographic data - interesting argument that checking for consistency is not always helpful if the data is consistently wrong. 😱
UK energy prices
Whatever the topic it seems the wonderful House of Commons library has a great briefing on it
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
Whatever the topic it seems the wonderful House of Commons library has a great briefing on it
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
November 22, 2024 at 9:46 AM
UK energy prices
Whatever the topic it seems the wonderful House of Commons library has a great briefing on it
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
Whatever the topic it seems the wonderful House of Commons library has a great briefing on it
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
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Wherever one stands on this issue, allowing UK missiles to be fired onto the soil of a nuclear state is not just an "operational decision" that can't be discussed in public.
It's a major act of state - something we never did in the worst days of the Cold War - and it needs democratic debate.
It's a major act of state - something we never did in the worst days of the Cold War - and it needs democratic debate.
November 21, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Wherever one stands on this issue, allowing UK missiles to be fired onto the soil of a nuclear state is not just an "operational decision" that can't be discussed in public.
It's a major act of state - something we never did in the worst days of the Cold War - and it needs democratic debate.
It's a major act of state - something we never did in the worst days of the Cold War - and it needs democratic debate.
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John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
The bespoke posh UK food gift trade and farm shops and other local outlets - are they really local?
Just discovered this company that manufacturers under its own label OR your own label. Its catalogue runs to over 200 pages.
bramblefoods.com/brochures/
Just discovered this company that manufacturers under its own label OR your own label. Its catalogue runs to over 200 pages.
bramblefoods.com/brochures/
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 AM
The bespoke posh UK food gift trade and farm shops and other local outlets - are they really local?
Just discovered this company that manufacturers under its own label OR your own label. Its catalogue runs to over 200 pages.
bramblefoods.com/brochures/
Just discovered this company that manufacturers under its own label OR your own label. Its catalogue runs to over 200 pages.
bramblefoods.com/brochures/
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Lessons from South African history for socialists everywhere. My interview with the ever effervescent David Hemson about the incredible Durban strikes, signalling the start of the end of apartheid roape.net/2024/11/20/a...
An interview with David Hemson - lessons from the South African liberation struggle - ROAPE
ROAPE’s Peter Dwyer interviews the South African socialist David Hemson. Hemson was a leading labour militant and trade unionist during the mass working class uprising and strikes in Durban in 1973. I...
roape.net
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Lessons from South African history for socialists everywhere. My interview with the ever effervescent David Hemson about the incredible Durban strikes, signalling the start of the end of apartheid roape.net/2024/11/20/a...
I know we are all supposed to be nice here but if you buy luxury cherry and sultana scones in the UK should there not be more luxury than this 😱😂
November 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
I know we are all supposed to be nice here but if you buy luxury cherry and sultana scones in the UK should there not be more luxury than this 😱😂
This is interesting on predicted Christmas sales in the UK
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
This is interesting on predicted Christmas sales in the UK
This is very important for an understanding of the UK economy.
I have often commented before on this issue. The Labour Force Survey is a key to understanding many things and if it has problems .....
I have often commented before on this issue. The Labour Force Survey is a key to understanding many things and if it has problems .....
Just how wrong might the Labour Force Survey have been about employment, unemployment and inactivity rates? My new paper estimates these rates independently of the LFS and gives quite different results... www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... 🧵
Get Britain’s Stats Working • Resolution Foundation
Given continued concern about the accuracy of many of the UK’s existing labour market statistics, this report presents an alternative assessment of what may have happened to employment, unemployment a...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This is very important for an understanding of the UK economy.
I have often commented before on this issue. The Labour Force Survey is a key to understanding many things and if it has problems .....
I have often commented before on this issue. The Labour Force Survey is a key to understanding many things and if it has problems .....
I have a blog on the role of UK food imports which puts the whole story into a longer run perspective leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/i...
Is the future a chip sandwich – analysing the role of food imports in the UK
How much food does a rich country like the UK import? Most say around 50% – others put it as high as 80%. How can the figures vary so much? And whatever the exact figure – how did these…
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I have a blog on the role of UK food imports which puts the whole story into a longer run perspective leftiehistorian.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/i...
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
What do people in the UK watch on TV - fascinating list of current audiences by size
www.thinkbox.tv/training-and...
www.thinkbox.tv/training-and...
Top programmes report
The top 50 programmes on TV based on the size of their total viewing audience over the week (including live, VOSDAL, time-shifted and total audience viewing figures). Filter by channel or audience.
www.thinkbox.tv
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 AM
What do people in the UK watch on TV - fascinating list of current audiences by size
www.thinkbox.tv/training-and...
www.thinkbox.tv/training-and...
Excellent House of Commons Library Report on Food Banks in the UK
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
November 18, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Excellent House of Commons Library Report on Food Banks in the UK
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
The History of History
Came across this wonderfully engaging account of the history of history quite by chance. Why don't academics do me of this stuff?
The picture does not do it justice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkJ...
Came across this wonderfully engaging account of the history of history quite by chance. Why don't academics do me of this stuff?
The picture does not do it justice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkJ...
The History of History
YouTube video by Daniel J. Watkins
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
The History of History
Came across this wonderfully engaging account of the history of history quite by chance. Why don't academics do me of this stuff?
The picture does not do it justice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkJ...
Came across this wonderfully engaging account of the history of history quite by chance. Why don't academics do me of this stuff?
The picture does not do it justice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkJ...
Statista on UK Black Friday sales in £billions with estimates for 2024
November 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Statista on UK Black Friday sales in £billions with estimates for 2024
To celebrate my arrival on Bluesky I am pleased to share this seventeenth century picture from the Welcome Institute Collection.
Civilisation and manners are, as they say, historical constructions.
Civilisation and manners are, as they say, historical constructions.
November 16, 2024 at 9:02 AM
To celebrate my arrival on Bluesky I am pleased to share this seventeenth century picture from the Welcome Institute Collection.
Civilisation and manners are, as they say, historical constructions.
Civilisation and manners are, as they say, historical constructions.