Richard Wood
Dr Richard Wood is a mathematician currently working in public healthcare and is a senior visiting fellow at a leading British university
Academia absent
The small-boats problem is ripe for research — why are academics staying away?
Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations
Simply blaming the West is easy but wrong
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
