Ramblings

What if Jeremy Corbyn had been Prime Minister? Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday columnist, said this week that he was prepared to own Boris Johnson’s premiership.  He was firm in the belief that it is preferable to an imaginary Jeremy Corbyn government.   Specifically, he claimed that deaths due to COVID 19 would have been the same under a Corbyn-Labour government as we have seen under Johnson-Conservantive.   I wrote this blog as an exercise to think through whether we can identify any likely differences in policy and approach and the impact they may have had on death rates.  It won’t be exhaustive in its considerations.  It won’t be unbiased.  I am a labour supporter but not a Jeremy Corbyn supporter.  So, my biases may cancel out. So, it’s Friday 13th December 2019 and Jeremy Corbyn has just been to Buckingham Palace and the Queen has asked him to form a government.  He has a small but workable majority. He appoints John Macdonnell - Chancellor, Diane Abbott - Home Secret

I started this record on April 8th 2020 as a bit of fun.  I wanted to see how long it would take some banana peel to biodegrade in my garden.  For comparison, I placed some satsuma peel and an apple core alongside it too.  (See video below) Day 2 As expected, not much change overnight. The banana peel is least obvious because it is black as the soil but all of the rubbish is just a bit dried up. Day 3 As the soil dries out the banana skin becomes more obvious again. The apple core is shrivelling up. Day 4  (See Day 3 really apart from the cherry tree which I've included just for a bit of variety) Day 5 Another sunny day drying out the rubbish but no visible decay. Day 6