Very impressed by this blog review from “Skuds”, who’s extended the review he wrote for Amazon Vine.
This quote is particularly good:
As soon as a minister admits that some new policy didn’t work he will find himself on the move at the next re-shuffle, after being held to ridicule by the media and probably branded a flip-flopper and accused of a U-turn. If they stick to their opinions in the face of very obvious failure they will be praised as a ‘conviction politician’.
I wonder where we would be if ‘conviction chemists’ were similarly praised, or ‘conviction doctors’? We would probably be treating common ailments with blood-letting and trepanning still.
The Geek Manifesto 
Just heard on BBC Radio 4 News that a woman in Salford has been burned in a racist attack after “acid” was thrown at her – “like household bleach”, the presenter said. I really hope the NHS staff treating this poor unfortunate woman know the difference between an acid and an alkali, unlike the BBC presenter. Thinking of CP Snow, I wondered what the literary equivalent of this scientific howler is – maybe “I like watching tragedies such as Fawlty Towers”