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 […]
China / Covid19 / World
Is ‘Patient Su’ Covid’s Patient Zero?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]
Drugs / Policy
Fifty years of fatal failure
Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they met many years ago over a glass of […]
United States / World
California nightmare
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd May, 2021) Scott Thatcher and his wife Angela were born in California and love the sun-kissed Golden State. But two months ago […]