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Friday Night: Brandy Alexander
Photo by Sephina Cornwall on Pexels.com Photo by Efrem C. on Pexels.com The first cocktail we ever saw prepared-or drunk- was almost exactly fifty years ago in a pub in West London where we worked …
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February 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Everyone hates Keir. Here’s why
Photo by David Iglesias on Pexels.com As we write. the current troubles of UK Prime Minister  Sir Keir Starmer are profound. One of the reasons they are so bad is that, almost before he took office…
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February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Narco Warriors: brilliant new podcast on the war that’s shaped two centuries
Photo by Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs on Pexels.com Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com We’ve always been pretty much against the illegal drugs trade, if that is still a safe th…
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February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Food: is it quite as good as you thought?
Photo by Nadin Sh on Pexels.com Photo by Vie Studio on Pexels.com Food is everywhere these days. Shelves groan with glossy cookbooks, restaurants and gastropubs queue up for tax breaks, and the air…
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February 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Two new stories give fresh hope on cancer
Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Two stories give us hope of real progress in understanding and treating cancer. The first from the excellent Emma Gritt of…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Forget the Middle East:Here’s the real crisis to watch out for
Photo by Nanda Ram Gharti on Pexels.com Photo by Sanjeev Kumar on Pexels.com Photo by Mirko Fabian on Pexels.com With the current tensions in the Middle East flooding the channels, you could be for…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Pollution: Devi Sridhar is a breath of fresh air
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Tetyana Kovyrina on Pexels.com If any one writer gets showcased more than any here, it’s probably Professor Devi Sridhar…
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January 27, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Can Cancer really save you from Alzheimer’s? Some great research, but also some caveats
Could having cancer really protect you from Alzheimers? For years epidemiologists  have noticed that  people who have had cancer — especially certain solid tumours — seem to have a reduced statisti…
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January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Neo Liberalism to National Market Liberalism: is this a Great Global Transformation?
Photo by Martin Damboldt on Pexels.com Photo by Leon Huang on Pexels.com “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” These words o…
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January 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Larry Elliott on Davos-and why things have gone wrong for all of us
Crowd gathers to view Swiss mountains by annezazu is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels.com Photo by Chanaka E on Pexels.com Bewilderment, incomprehension, despair, ra…
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January 22, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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we couldn't think of any modern parallels-but can you?
How the Emperor Justinian tried to Make Rome Great Again-and failed
Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV on Pexels.com When the Emperor Justinian succeeded to the Roman Empire in 527 AD it was already well past its best. All the western provinces-lands we now call Britain, Fran…
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January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Debra MacKenzie on microplastics-and a master class in balanced reporting
Photo by Catherine Sheila on Pexels.com Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com So-are all our bodies full of microplastics, ready to reach out their oily han…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Gold is King #3: How one of our old blogs really has come true!
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Long standing readers (surely “long suffering”?-ed) will recall our two blogs Gold is King….(LSS 26 10 24) and &#8230…
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January 18, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Friday Night: How about a Glass of Sherry?
Photo by Antonio Garcia Prats on Pexels.com Photo by Antonio Garcia Prats on Pexels.com Photo by Antonio Garcia Prats on Pexels.com Southwest Spain, the Costa de la Luz, that tucked-away corner whe…
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January 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Do the Twistronics-and change the world
Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels.com What happens if you take two sheets of graphene and rotate one slightly relative to the other?” It’s a question all of us must have asked ourselves at one poi…
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January 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Hot years and wild fires: Is this the start of a true doom loop?
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Two stories today give us serious pause for thought. Both concern our old bête noire of climate change. It’s not the bad news per se: we’re kind of inured by now. It’…
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January 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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My Home is damaged: time to sue Big Oil?
Photo by Keysi Estrada on Pexels.com Photo by Helena Jankoviu010dovu00e1 Kovu00e1u010dovu00e1 on Pexels.com It’s a question a lot of people are asking as the world is increasingly lashed by the  st…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Autism: How many types?
Readers will recall the ancient controversy over claims that Autism was caused by the MMR vaccine. We didn’t believe those claims much then, and probably even less so now. But amid all the sh…
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January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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or, in a nutshell: Da quod jubes, et jubes quod da
Out thoughts for the New Year: a little works better than a lot
Photo by Polina u2800 on Pexels.com Photo by coworkingspace Replus on Pexels.com Photo by Blue Bird on Pexels.com The first few days of the year are always filled with a media barrage of advice. Yo…
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January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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read this article-it's a gas!
We offer a massive and unconditional apology for Nitrogen
We think we owe you a truly massive overwhelming  apology, gentle reader. And this is why. “Will the world end with a bang or a whimper?” is a question we’ve covered before here. We’ve …
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January 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Has Donald Trump just brought a World Government much nearer?
Last year we ran a series exploring the pros and cons of a World Government.(LSS 8 1 25 et seq) The general consensus was that it was a nice idea in theory: but utterly unattainable in practice. An…
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January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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AI stocks: boom or bubble?
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Photo by Sora Shimazaki on Pexels.com Photo by Francis Seura on Pexels.com Believe us: last week our favourite AI system made two dreadful errors. It blithely assured…
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January 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Devi Sridhar on weight loss drugs: another class in careful thinking
Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com If one thing has captured the zeitgeist this year , it’s weight loss drugs. You know the ones like semaglutide which mimic the effects of the hormone GLP-1.…
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January 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Two New Year Cocktails from 2020: we can’t improve on them
Photo by Naim Benjelloun on Pexels.com Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Photo by sergio souza on Pexels.com December 31 2020: it seems such a long time ago! It was the year Joe Biden had defeated D…
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December 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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LSS v The Guardian: Clash of the Titans. And the battleground is antibiotics
Readers of LSS, we present today a true clash of titans: us versus the popular daily newspaper The Guardian. For they have just published a leader article on antibiotics progress which takes an alt…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM