David Paton
David Paton is Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School. He is a member of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART)
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Seven indicators that show infections were falling before Lockdown 3.0
Data from seven different indicators establishes that infections were already in decline in England before the January lockdown
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?