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?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
