Day: 29 April 2022

The people who push for energy sanctions against Russia tend to view the economy as they view the theatre of battle: as a simple conflict. They hit us, we hit them. But this is not how the economy works.

In a recent podcast interview with the New York Times, Philip Breedlove – former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO – said, "I think we are in a proxy war with Russia. We are using the Ukrainians as our proxy forces."

Emergency calls for cardiac arrest in young people in Israel were associated with the vaccine rollout, spiking 25% higher than in earlier years, but not with COVID-19 prevalence, a study in Nature has found.

Preventing hospital patients and care home residents from seeing visitors, leaving them to die alone, is cruel, inhumane and unnecessary, both now and during the pandemic, doctors have told MPs.

Whisper it quietly, but Arctic ice is making a comeback. The coverage is now very close to the 1991-2020 average, well above a 2012 low point and higher than 2020. No sign of an alarmist catastrophe here.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.