Covid
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
British politics needs more Dominic Cummingses
You don’t have to like him, but he got things done
Our public services are hamstrung by low productivity
The government must do more to help a sluggish state sector catch up
Buried roots of war
We have not remembered all the relevant facts about the conflict in Ukraine
When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
Is fat a feminist issue?
Accepting your body is a selective exercise for some progressives
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
