Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han […]
Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists
Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning […]
These demonstrators might look like mindless thugs, but fascism can exploit divisions
Published by The i paper (15th June, 2020) Three years ago I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had found itself caught in the midst of a national struggle […]
So where did Covid-19 come from?
Published by UnHerd (12th June, 2020) Last year, Yuan Zhiming published an article in the Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity confessing to concerns about high security laboratories in China. He […]
British exceptionalism and the legacy of Empire
Published by The i paper (8th June, 2020) Among the strangest aspects of Britain’s pandemic response has been constant parroting of claims by stumbling politicians and their scientific […]
New evidence of how Beijing covered up outbreak
Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 7th 2020) Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been found in censored media reports from Wuhan. Samples […]
The Republican Party’s descent into darkness
Published by UnHerd (4th June, 2020) On April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. He spoke for 40 minutes without […]
Incompetence personified
Published by The i paper (1st June, 2020) Clearly Dominic Cummings has little respect for rules. So he must be delighted to have shattered one of the most oft-heard […]
Beijing now admits virus didn’t start in market. So where did it come from?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st May, 2020) China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the […]
Pandemic, power and a prime minister’s hubris
Published by The i paper (25th May, 2020) The strange thing about politics is how stories about one person’s behaviour can detonate like a lethal missile as they […]
Coronavirus is ‘uniquely adapted to infect humans’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th May, 2020) A team of scientists has produced evidence that the pandemic virus is ‘uniquely adapted to infect humans’, raising fresh […]