In his Spectator column this week, Toby looks at the "head-scratcher" of how progressives seek to both politicise science and appeal to it as an objective source of justification for measures like lockdown and Net Zero.
There have been 15,357 excess non-Covid deaths registered in England and Wales in the 17 weeks since April 23rd, many of them from cardiovascular causes. What is causing a mysterious wave of heart deaths?
Arctic sea ice has increased since 2012 and is now close to the average for 1991-2000 – another inconvenient fact for climate change alarmists, alongside thriving polar bears and more coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
Ukraine and Russia may have been close to a peace deal in April. However, “sources close to Zelenskyy” told a Ukrainian newspaper that Boris Johnson scuttled the talks because there was a chance to "press" Putin.
Dr David Seedhouse, who created the Ethical Grid 35 years ago as a tool to guide ethical decision-making, says lockdown would have been avoided if politicians learned how to think ethically.
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.
