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Essays since China
2021
330 - Early Snippets
2020 July to Dec
327 - Looking ahead
326 - QE3
325 - Covid in December
324 - Alerts and Compliance
323 - Where do we go from here?
322- Covid in November
321 - Levelling up, levelling off
320 - Use of Number
319 - Boris and hot air; offshore wind farms
318 - Covid in October
317 - Covid vs Influenza
316 - Covid in September
315 - Dissatisfied with Democracy
314 - Migration 2020
313 - Snippets
312 - School post-lockdown
311 - Covid in August
2020 Jan to July
310 - Reducing population
309 - What a brick
308 - Culture Cancellation
307 - No2 High Street
306 - Covid in July
305 - Risk
304 - Covid Disparities
303 - Covid in June
302 - A nudge is as good as a wink
301 - Asterisk in Britain
300 - Covid in May
299 - Covid in April
298 - Covid Cost Consequences
297 - Transparency
296 - Mental Health
295 - Long-Term Distancing
294 - Horrid Paint
293 - Covid-19 charts
292 - Numeracy needed
291 - Effects of an Outbreak
290 - 15 minutes access
289 - Fishing vs Finance
2019
288 - Email Carbon
287 - Political Truth
286 - 1632 series
285 - Is teaching worth it?
284 - Pro Rogue
283 - C0₂, Cement and Concrete
282 - C0₂ sources
281 - Age grading 2
280 - Denialism
279 - Sca, Fell and Pike
278 - Personal Data
277 - Is capitalism a bad thing?
276 - pros and cons of Brexit
275 - Tenses in English
274 - Dangerous Fashion
273 - Populism
272 - Diabetes 3
271 - Podcasts or not
270 - Generation Rent
269 - Whither the phone?
2018 Sep to Dec
268 - Poverty in Britain
267 - Trust
266 - Political Corruption
265 - Referendum, referenda
264 - How to change a habit
263 - Age-grading
262 - Turning CO₂ back into fuel
261 - Mental Health
260 - When the data isn’t good enough
259 - Too Much Finance
258 - the Resource Curse
257 - Matters of Opinion
256 - Tosspottery
255 - Bad News Sells Newspapers
2018 Jan to Aug
254 - Words I want to know
253 - Gardening Enjoyment - or not.
252 - Why I hate the Phone 2
251 - unicode fun
249 - British Social Attitudes 1 - Climate Change
248 - the High Street, No1
247- Political Distrust
246 - Happiness
245 - Essential communications
244 - Universal Basic Income
243 - Smart meters
242 - Plastic Waste Revisited 2
2017 2nd half
225 - A new Dark Age?
226 - A new Dark Age, Part 2
227 - the Learning Business
228 - Bracken Control
229 - Communication Imperfect
230 - Communication 2: Context
231 - Is education worthwhile?
232 - Causation
233 - Phishing
234 - the Cost of Tertiary
235 - Hypocrisy, Cynicism, etc
236 - What is Data Quality?
237 - Smell the Food
238 - True Grit
239 - The current Irish Question
240 - More population issues
241 - the Middle Class
2017 1st half
213 - Faking It
214 - Inbox Zero
215 - Commuting
216 - Damned lies and statistics
217 - South China Sea
218 - Solar panels
219 - combination locks
220 - Bath vs Shower
221 - House Prices
222 - Diesel is Bad
223 - Moving House
224 - Whit Friday Marches
2016 2nd half
196 - Tall trees need water
197 - Hyphens and dashes
198 - How to catch a lion
199 - The Press is the Enemy
200 - Zombie Ideas
201 - Democracy fail
202 - Disgust, discussed
203 - Technological revolution
204 - Addiction to Exercise
205 - Churnalism
206 - Punctuation - Apostrophes
207 - US democracy
208 - Population Issues
209 - Infrastructure - transport
210 - the Business Vote
211 - 2008 financial crisis
212 - Choices
2016 1st half
184 - Drown-proofing
185 - Free Speech - gone?
186 - Going Down
187 - Stupidity
188 - The End of an Era?
189 - US election turnout
190 - Diabetes 2
191 - Why do we refuse to do maths?
192 - Going a bit faster in the Hills
193 - Degree Classes
194 - What price ebooks?
195 - Is copyright wrong?
2015 2nd half
172 - English articles
173 - UK Migration
174 - UK Illegal Immigration
175 - More on Migration
176 - Diabetes
177 - Pollution Again
178 - English negatives
179 - What is electricity?
180 - Dementia
181 - Grammar School
182 - Landlines to go
183 - Moon-based festivals
2015 1st half
150 - Recycling
151 - Devolution
152 - Retyred
153 - Digital Newspaper
154 - Apolitical Geography
155 - Unfamiliar Peninsulas
156 - Speed vs Safety
157 - Future vehicles - bikes
158 - Future vehicles - cars
159 - Future vehicles - fuels
160 - Alternative Internal Combustion
161 - Alternatives to Internal Combustion
162 - Vehicle Efficiencies
163 - Exercise may be good for you
164 - !! Using tables in webpages
165 - Shopping deceit
166 - Dress Sizes
167 -Judgment Day Pt 2, the election
168 - Judgment Day Pt 1
169 - Electric motors
170 - Timeliness
171 - Human Rights
2014 2nd half
135 - the Hills of Qingdao
136 – Catalysis
137 - Back to Britain
138 - Upgrading the computer
139 - PRC / UK relative costs
140 - Return on investment
141 - Vocabulary
142 - the running club
143 - the NEw locality
144 Alex Nunns - On health care
145 - the Gower Peninsula
146 - a Bucket List
147 - the Brass Band
148 - Rhetorical Language
149 - A Need for Christmas
2009 Essays
38 - Fresh Air
39 - On Hash
40 - Going to the Bank
41 JPD - The Nail Girl
42 - Rotten Apple Shop
43 - Huangshan
44 - Nanjing
451º
46 - the new flat in ZhaoQing
47 - Chinese Christmas
2010 Essays
48 - Four letter word rides alone
49 - Rising Water levels
50 - A Trip to Macao
52 - Ancestor worship
51 - Language 3
53 - Life in ZQ
54 - Short-term targets
x 55 - Issues of Face
56 - !! Un petit, d’un petit
57 - Chinese TV
58 - A Bit of PT
59 - Looking Both Ways
60 - Visiting Britain
61 - Flight Experience
62 - Altogether a different Hash
63 - On Hydration
64 - The Sock Monster
65 - Letters to and from China
66 - A Trail Run
67 - To Ikea
68 - Flocking
69 - Behaviour - what is proper?
70 - Into the hills
2011 Essays
71 - Feeling Cold
72 - Linear Thinking
74 - Overheard
73 - Ganbei
75 - Ningbo
76 - Qingdao
77 - A Race to get Married
2012 1st half
78 - Post Part Umm
79 - Planetary Conjunctions
80 - The Office 1
81 - Observed at school
82 - What’s it Worth?
83 - Why buy education?
84 - Measures of Success
85 - when the ordure strikes the rotating aerator
86 - Opportunity & Disaster
87 - Hashing in Laoshan
88 - Honesty, integrity, morals, etc
2012 2nd half
89 - Workyticket
90 - Rules, gamesmanship & reportage
91—What is an illegal immigrant?
92—New car names
93 - Consideration
94—Wo is I
95 Cathy Song - I fought for 18 years..
96—What were you doing when..?
97—The Wakhjir Pass and Time Zones
98—The Mindset List
99 —The Union Flag
100 - Peak Oil
101- Hashing Best Practice
2013 Essays
102 - Working in Beijing
103—Beijing Geography
104 - Air Quality Issues
105—Calling the shots
106 - More on pollution
107 - chasing corrupt files
108 Spider Robinson - Pandora’s Last Gift
109 - Temple of Heaven
110 - Mondegreens
111 - Spoonerisms
112 - Going to the Gym
113 - Heart rates
114 - Water, water and not a drop to drink
115 - Christmas comes early this year
116 - Dynastic Change
117 Draft Mots Guesses
118 - iPhry Behaviour
120 - Toilets
119 - The Office 2
121 - Ocean World
2014 1st half
122 - A day at the organ
123 - Readablility
124 - books on running
125 - Four letter words - the Urban Legend
126 - British? Me? Apparently not.
127 - Zombium
128 - The English Abroad
129 - A Cold Story
130 - I, Robot
131 - Internet Weather
132 - Magnetism
133 - The Five Year Rule
134 - 35th May
2007 Essays
01 - The Decision to leave Britain
02 - ID Cards
03 - Eating Grass makes you stupid
04 - 4-letter Words
05 - The Process of Moving
06 - Bumping Races
07 - Ineffective Invective
08 - Week 0: Arrival
09 - Language 1
10 - Heat and Humidity
11 - Plastic Bags get everywhere
12 - Week 3: language 2
13 - isn’t what I thought it was
14 - Xi’an, the immediate locale
15 - Wine into Water
16 - The English Club
17 - The City Wall Race
18 - A Chinese Wedding
19 - Man or Mouse?
2008 Essays
20 - Some Chinese Geography
21 - Interruptions
22 - What is safe?
23 - Running Factors
24 - A visit to Spa
25 - Chinese New Year
26 - The Warriors
27 - Earthquake
28 - The Leak
29 - Traffic
30 - Telephones and why I hate them
31 - ..and the point is? Perhaps Graduation
32 - Sports Day (not)
33 - Censorship
34 - Cleaning the Flat
35 - The News
36 - The Lads’ Weekend
37 - Intellectual Property
The Filthy Comma
List of Jessie’s essays
2018
tfc#72 Sorry not sorry
tfc#71 The kindness of strangers
tfc#71 Reproductively, I’m more of a Gaza
2017
tfc#70 to do with a fake P45
tfc#69 Swear on the Heron
tfc#68 'Dearer than eye-sight'
tfc#67 Bing-bong!
tfc#66 Chinese Whispers
tfc#65 Jam Tomorrow
2016
thefilthycomma #64
thefilthycomma #63
thefilthycomma #62
Brexit, pursued by a bear
thefilthycomma #60
thefilthycomma #59
thefilthycomma #58
2015
thefilthycomma #57
thefilthycomma #56
thefilthycomma #55
thefilthycomma #54
thefilthycomma #53
thefilthycomma #52
2014
thefilthycomma #51
thefilthycomma #50
thefilthycomma #49
thefilthycomma #48
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thefilthycomma #45
thefilthycomma #44
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thefilthycomma #41
thefilthycomma #40
thefilthycomma #39
thefilthycomma #38
thefilthycomma #37
thefilthycomma #36
2013
thefilthycomma #35
thefilthycomma #34
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thefilthycomma #32
thefilthycomma #31
thefilthycomma #30
thefilthycomma #29
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thefilthycomma #27
thefilthycomma #26
thefilthycomma #25
2012
thefilthycomma #24
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thefilthycomma #14
thefilthycomma #13
thefilthycomma #12
thefilthycomma #11
thefilthycomma #10
thefilthycomma #09
2011
thefilthycomma #08
thefilthycomma #07
thefilthycomma #06
thefilthycomma #05
thefilthycomma #04
thefilthycomma #03
thefilthycomma #02
thefilthycomma #01
The Nail Girl #00
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A Christmas Message - modelling for fun
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Running and Walking
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Horrible paint
Trespass of your social distancing bubble
Viruses are very small
Borderline Statistics
Further Pure at BSB
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Chinese New (Maths) Year
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