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Obviously Morrison never had my vote by the time he reached the top job. Someone whose biggest claim on ‘leadership’ was ‘stopping the boats’ was never going to wash with me, and his performance as PM has only strengthened my disapproval of him especially through the pandemic (and worse, actually, as he is our firstContinue reading “Let’s Talk Leadership”

Lately I have noticed something that I find strange and, well troubling, really. I have noticed in a lot of open spaces around the city people gathered in white clothing, some wearing war paint (like many First Nations people traditionally did) or even like Georgians in England. They seemed to be enacting strange rituals burstingContinue reading “What’s That Got To Do With COVID?: Funny you should ask”

I know that I have let the economics and investing element of my blog lapse terribly – I admit that it is an aspect of the ‘Great Reset’ era’s affect on me, along with some personal issues, that have seen me deprioritise thinking and writing about ‘money’ to be less than other more pressing issues,Continue reading “Legendary Investor Jeremy Grantham Calls End Of ‘Super Bubble’ in US Asset Markets”

Like many of us, I am keen to adios 2021 and welcome in 2022 tonight. While my family had a successful year, especially our boys who we are so very proud of, the challenges we have had to face (around prejudice, bias, equity and inclusion) have tired us greatly, and that is before even consideringContinue reading “Welcome 2022!”

Absolutely nobody can definitively answer this with robust reasoning based on what is known at this point in time, but IT IS a possibility. We should act with caution but also with hope in our hearts. Now some explanation, first an apposite anecdote. My first job after my PhD was researching the viral cause ofContinue reading “Could Omicron bring the pandemic to an end?”

When do I as a man stand to account for my actions Me alone? When were my racist thoughts and actions mine to own and not that of my upbringing? My father’s? My uncle’s? For it was me, too, that laughed at Kevin Bloody Wilson when I was a teen With his vile words thatContinue reading “Responsibility and Atonement”

Yesterday Zhengli informed me of the death on August 8th of Jean-Robert JR Bonami, her PhD supervisor, and for a brief while my mentor. No longer active in the field and within that community, I will express my condolences here in the hope that those to whom it means something will one day see them.Continue reading “Vale The Legendary Virologist Jean-Robert (JR) Bonami”

My first cartoon attempt – “The Children Left Onboard Affair”… I wanted to include New Zealand with a ‘ring of steel’ around it and a rainbow, and Jacinda Ardern saying “see you in 8 weeks – good luck”… Seems strange, does it not, that in a major global catastrophe we are saying “sorry, children toContinue reading “Australia’s Children Left Onboard Affair”

I realise that for many the workings of a laboratory could seem very foreign and mysterious, ranging from mythical through to threatening depending on your leanings and predispositions to conspiracy theories. Few of us have a background in infectious disease, and it is always – for any of us – easy to take for grantedContinue reading “More On COVID-19 Origins And PM Morrison’s Tactics”