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 […]
Policy / Race
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 […]
China / Covid19 / World
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 […]
Policy / Politics / Race / United States / World
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 […]
Politics
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 […]
China / Covid19 / World
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 […]
Covid19 / Politics
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 […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
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 […]
Economics
What does a rich list really tell us?
Published by The i paper (18th May, 2020) I was a young reporter on contract at The Sunday Times when Andrew Neil first published a “rich list”. Those […]
China / Covid19 / World
Landmark study: Virus didn’t come from animals in Wuhan market
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th May, 2020) China’s claims that the pandemic emerged from a wild animal market in Wuhan last December have been challenged by […]