Category: Random other stuff

  • Essex Covid Data: Quick update

    Essex Covid Data: Quick update

    My previous post about Essex covid data generated a bit of discussion. In particular, the key question seems to be: why do the hospital admissions seem to go up 7-14 days after the case numbers go up? It struck me yesterday that there’s a simple and straightforward answer: people who have symptoms get tested. In…

  • Random Lockdown Generator

    Random Lockdown Generator

    This is just a bit of fun… I felt a bit depressed last night about Lockdown II. I had a bit of an idea and decided to relieve some of the tension by making a random lockdown generator. You can find it here. You just click the button and it will generate ten random restrictions…

  • How to hide political memes on Facebook

    How to hide political memes on Facebook

    In my opinion, one of the worst things about Facebook is the political memes. Here’s how you hide political memes on Facebook. As I said fairly recently, I think social media is pretty toxic at the moment. One of the reasons I think it’s toxic is that it’s a terrible environment to discuss politics. To…

  • Introducing Friend Zone

    I’ve been working on a new website for the last few weeks called Friend Zone. The idea has been brewing for a while now, but it’s something which I’ve only felt able to put into practice recently. Here’s a video of me explaining what the site is about: https://youtu.be/qq3lNlEXyoU Why don’t you take a look?

  • Sex is burning the house down #MeToo

    Sex is like fire. In the fireplace it keeps us warm. Outside the fireplace it burns down the house. Ray Ortlund. Apologies if I’ve reminded you of a song by the Kings of Leon (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider yourself fortunate). I came across the quote above recently and I found it…

  • The Bible and (same-sex) marriage: Cutting through to the root issue

    Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have blogged quite a few times about marriage, and in particular same-sex marriage. You can see my previous posts under the “marriage” tag. Anyway, it seems we are still talking about marriage: the debate has simply moved from society – where same-sex marriage is now a…

  • Brexit and the decline of Christian understanding

    The last few days I have felt particularly ashamed to be British. Not because the country voted to leave the EU, but because of the backlash following it. I appreciate that many people felt deeply unhappy with the result – it’s natural and understandable. Many people believed that leaving the EU was the wrong decision.…

  • Cathy Warwick and Pro-Choice Logic

    Cathy Warwick has been in the news lately – she signed the Royal College of Midwives up to support a legal campaign for the removal of abortion limits in the UK. (Currently, if a woman undergoes an abortion outside of the law, it is a criminal offence.) This would effectively allow abortion to happen up until…

  • Transgender and the new reality

      Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof…

  • Gay marriage and the power of stories

    Although same-sex marriage has been legal in the UK now for nearly a year, I still think it’s worth reflecting on the road which brought us to where we are. In fact, I think it’s probably good to reflect on what happened with the benefit of hindsight. One thing which is clearer to me now than…