Dr David Boase
David Boase is a retired surgeon who specialised in the treatment of infectious diseases of the eye, and has a lifelong interest in the history of medicine.
Expediting the Coronavirus exit
The government has an ever-increasing need for a health solution: could Plasma Therapy be the way forward?
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked