Neal O'KellyUnderstanding the cab-rank ruleWhy The Secret Barrister is wrong (this time).4 min read·Mar 25, 2024----
Neal O'KellyAustralia have retained The Ashes. And they are actually celebrating. Why?The Australians are celebrating “retaining” The Ashes after bottling it and only managing to draw the series after taking a commanding 2–0…3 min read·Aug 1, 2023----
Neal O'KellyUnderstanding proportionalness as an attribute of electoral systemsI don’t know why this needs saying. But it does. So I will. First-Past-the-Post is a Proportional Representation voting system. I’m not…4 min read·Jul 28, 2023----
Neal O'KellyThe Road Collision Reporting Guidelines should take their own adviceA few months ago, former Green Party leader, Jenny Jones tweeted about the use of the word “accident”. In her view, accidents are adverse…7 min read·Jul 14, 2023----
Neal O'KellyHow to evaluate your government’s performance at handling Covid.In April 2020 I wrote that, “Only a fool or a liar can tell you whether your government is doing a good job [at handling Covid]. Nearly…8 min read·Mar 9, 2023----
Neal O'KellyWill Sars-CoV-2 ameliorate?Covid rent-a-gob, generic scientist and Angel of Doom, Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) has written a myth-busting article for The Guardian…5 min read·Mar 31, 2022----
Neal O'KellyOn “significance”Dr Clare Craig is a darling of the lockdown sceptic movement. Certainly her mumsy-ness is a welcome contrast to the usual “angry man”…6 min read·Jan 22, 2021----
Neal O'KellyRecent mild flu seasons result in more COVID-19 deathsToday, I stumbled across self-published paper by Dr Chris Hope — a Reader at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. The paper…3 min read·Aug 20, 2020----