If you read his old blog posts from about 10 years ago he didn't reiterate anything. If you then read the comments on those posts you'll understand why he now does!
'The figures do not specify how people died, or whether the death was related to the care they were expecting from the NHS. The data also does not contain ages or medical conditions'
This is a mischievous use of statistics
If an eighty year-old dies from a heart condition while waiting for an appointment at their local hearing clinic, they make this list
All this data really tells us is that the NHS is underfunded and badly managed, leading to backlogs and delays in treatment
The introduction of the smartphone has changed children for the worse. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Can someone explain how this link has made it to number one on the front page, when it seems from the comments that no one understands what the page is saying?
For example should you be evicted from your family farm that you've worked on your whole life when your 80 year old mother dies just because you haven't saved up enough money to buy it on the event of her death.
What if you are a subsistence farmer in Cambodia in the same situation - should you lose your family land to the state on the event of the death of your parents?
I haven't tried the api yet, but the example on the home page says that "Lois" is a female name - when in fact, in the 1930s it was quite a popular male name with about 70 boys born each year named lois. Checkout http://www.namemeababy.com to see the full stats.
Thanks for the feedback, the lack of Bort is due to (for privacy reasons) not having any names in the database for which fewer than 5 children have been given that name in any one year.
The reason I use google reader is because it is best supported by iphone apps for offline reading. Does anyone know of any iphone apps that will allow me to read my rss feeds while underground?