Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She was a physical therapist who loved working with […]
Politics
Something rotten at the heart of Westminster
Published by The i paper (28th June, 2021) So farewell then, Matt Hancock, self-righteous protector of the nation’s public health in the pandemic. His career, so carefully nurtured […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology
World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a proposal to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of world-renowned medical […]
China / World
Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong
Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]
Covid19
One question our chief scientist needs to answer
Published by UnHerd (21st June, 2021) Sir Patrick Vallance has had a good pandemic. The country’s chief scientific officer pushed hard for early lockdown, came up with the […]
Health / Policy / Politics
Symbol of the sickening Tory chumocracy
Published by The i paper (21st June, 2021) If you want an example of so much that is wrong with our country, consider this fact: Dido Harding has […]
Covid19 / Feature / Technology
Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his […]
Arts / Books / Drugs / Policy / United States / World
An addiction catastrophe
Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology
Beijing’s useful idiots
Published by UnHerd (8th June, 2021) Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world […]
China / World
China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history
Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]
Travel / United States / World
Rocket Man vs the Earthlings
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th June, 2021) There cannot be many more idyllic spots for those seeking the quiet life than Boca Chica, which sits on […]
Disability / Health / Policy
We have failed people with autism
Published by The i paper (31st May, 2021) Dannielle Attree has spent half of her life being subjected to state-sanctioned abuse. She is only 24 years old but […]