Published by UnHerd (13th April, 2021) Feng Zijian played a central role in the World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. The Chinese epidemiologist was one […]
Drugs / Policy
The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won
Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]
Europe / Germany / Politics
A Green light from Germany
Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for most of this century, but her long reign […]
China / Covid19 / World
What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]
China / Economics / World
Nike’s shows the conflict between ethics and profits
Published by The i paper (29th March, 2021) Like most modern multinationals, the sportswear giant Nike likes to present itself as a force for good on the planet, […]
China / Covid19 / United States / World
‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick with ‘Covid-like’ symptoms at least six weeks before […]
Crime / Policy / Politics
The PM is undermining our freedoms
Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of a meaning. Last week, the Government sought to […]
United States / World
‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ How the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd is already a TV circus
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st March 2021) ‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ exclaimed the excited television presenter. ‘Our teams will be live for every moment.’ If […]
Aid
The PM made a catastrophic error by pledging to return aid spending to hit the target
Published by The Daily Telegraph (18th March, 2021) Boris Johnson’s landmark foreign policy review, published on Tuesday, revealed the extent of his seismic blunder on aid spending. Four […]
Covid19 / Politics
The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers
Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to take off as a fashionable cause. Acid rain […]
Africa / Rwanda / Technology
National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator
Published by UnHerd (3rd March, 2021) The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is a master at playing Westerners for adulation and aid money. As I wrote here last week, […]