Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of workers were condemned as crooks by faulty software no-one really understood, portends a future of digital chaos, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
It is the prerogative of every society to believe it is uniquely afflicted by existential threats, ruled by waves of corrupt incompetents and saddled with a feckless, spoiled younger generation of popinjays.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter has told the BBC that Covid infections were dropping before lockdown and he "really, really regrets" not having evidence sooner that closing schools was pointless.
Lord Stern's official climate review found that if the world did nothing it would make us just 5% poorer. As with Covid, the cure is clearly worse than the disease – even for those who accept the official 'science'.
Guy de la Bédoyère welcomes Dr. Jenny Bulstrode's absurd claim that Britain didn't abolish the slave trade and the subsequent onslaught from her academic colleagues. These academic disputes add to the gaiety of the nation.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère says the SAGE scientists didn't have a clue about whether to lock down or not in March 2020, any more than historians know much about what went on in the past.
We should always be sceptical of woke historical revisionism, says Guy de la Bédoyère. But in the case of 'trans' Emperor Elagabalus, the teenage popinjay really may have been partial to a bit of cross-dressing.
Patrick Vallance branded Chris Whitty a lockdown 'delayer', but he seems to have forgotten that before the first lockdown he was himself a champion of herd immunity and avoiding "hard suppression".
Guy de la Bédoyère looks back on his childhood in the 1960s and 70s and see a world that, while far from perfect, was free from the catastrophism and online pressures that blight children's lives today.
