Covid
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Total lack of recall
Taking a walk down memory wilderness with Rishi Sunak
There is still no pandemic plan
The Covid inquiry could help improve our response to the next crisis, but is not asking the right questions
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
Revisionist lockdown history
The public health establishment is being whitewashed over COVID
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
