Philip Hunter

Science and Technology journalist, interested in life sciences. Part time amateur mathematician. Weather, Wine and Running enthusiast.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

If the media is the devil then, like Faust, Prince Harry has sold his soul to it. But then don't all celebrities?

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

The digital divide is as inevitable and inexorable as boom and bust, so that promises to heal it are fatuous. With boom and bust, one can merely smooth the curve and cushion the impacts. Likewise, the digital divide can only be narrowed, not eradicated.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Biting the hand that feeds you is at least not as hypocritical or hubristic as biting the one that recently fed you. Ask Andrew Neil who lambasted the BBC the moment he had departed.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Power may be corrupting but status is merely elevating.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Surgical #Masks appear slightly effective not because they block transmission of #viruses but because they drive transmission of fear.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Wokeism is not so much the new religion, but an attempt to build a coalition among mostly younger people in a fragmented world where past societal bonds have been severed.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

@MetRyan96 Indeed, and notice where the lowest dew points were clustered in the east Midlands after the air had crossed quite a lot of land and hills to squeeze out a lot of the moisture picked up over the sea passage from the Arctic - dew points were not so low on north coast of Scotland.

[MetRyan @MetRyan96]

Some bonkers dew points at the moment! Extremely dry air

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Levelling up is great in #theory but in #Practice more often means levelling down.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

It is not exposure to air that helps a wound to heal but absence of #water.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

The fence may be an uncomfortable place to sit, but its visibility of the neighbour's #garden is excellent.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

I know now what it feels like to be in China, tweeting from the belly of the great self appointed censor itself, #Twitter !

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

#citation is often little more than legitimized #plagiarism. I am afraid I am guilty as charged.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

A craving for authority is a signal that a population is ready for a period of dictatorship. That is where we find ourselves in the UK as the public slides into a state of #Stockholm Syndrome".

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

There is a big difference between dying with covid and dying OF covid. Official figures equate only to the former.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

If you want to know what the weather or climate's like somewhere, the last person to ask is a local.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

Governments have employed fear with exquisite skill during the #COVID19 #pandemic to justify and align public opinion behind their draconian and pernicious policies. It is a pity they did not exert the same effort in critical thinking.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

I tweeted in June that no European government would be stupid enough to lockdown again. Well I was wrong on many counts.

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

@TweetaDean @TheBuyer11 @pietrosd @SteveKubota @wineworldnews @DivaVinophile @frankstero @RealWineGuru @winewankers @nineov @emmawellingspr Sounds great value Pete with two types of acidity. Cloudy Bay has long been the gold standard for New Zealand SBs but are we are witnessing a second wave of enthusiasm for this distinctive version of the varietal ?

[Philip Hunter @PhilipjHunter]

#Biden might have made a decent #President 12 years ago when he became vice, and #Obama would do a much better job today. He was intoxicated by his own oratory but has learned since that words alone do not win the trench warfare of ideas.