Tim Hammond
Tim Hammond studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and then worked in the City and for major corporations analysing complex models, statistics, risk and financial forecasts.
The Misdirection of the Fat Police
Focusing on obesity distracts from the real reasons we’ve had such high death rates
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation