Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, who served as mediator between Russia and Ukraine at the war's outset, has said in an interview that the West blocked a draft peace deal because they wanted to "keep striking Putin".
According to the UN, 2.85 million Ukrainians refugees are residing in Russia, more than in any other country. However, this number cannot be taken at face value, due to allegations of forced population transfers.
No papers have been published at the Large Hadron Collider since last March because scientists object to co-authorship with Russian institutes and individuals. This virtue-signalling does nothing to help Ukraine.
South Korea saw a large spike in excess mortality even after 90% of over 80s were double-vaccinated. Yet Hong Kong saw an even greater spike. And there, less than 30% of over 80s were double-vaccinated.
Boris Johnson argues that we should give Ukraine longer-range artillery, tanks and perhaps even planes. This is a coherent position. By contrast, the position of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz makes no sense at all.
Once-great academic institutions are fond of commissioning long reports into their historical ‘links’ with racism. The latest institution to partake in this ritual is the American Society of Human Genetics.
It’s possible that a serious crisis is developing in the NHS, and mortality will remain elevated for some time. However, we’ll only know that once we have the data. At the moment, there’s no reason to panic.
Recent headlines would have us believe that 2022 was an unusually deadly year, because of a "crisis" in the NHS. As a matter of fact, 2022 was the third least-deadly year ever in England and Wales.
It's unclear that Ukraine can win decisively with the current level of assistance. Yet Western leaders seem reluctant to give substantially more. So why aren't they pushing both sides to negotiate?
In a recent interview, French historian Emmanuel Todd argues that the war in Ukraine is really about Germany. When asked who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, he said, "Of course the Americans."
Oxford has launched an "investigation" into an email sent by a don 26 years ago when he was an LSE undergraduate. If someone says they told an off-colour joke when they were 14, is Oxford going to look into that too?
Lord Hannan has lamented that Brits' support for lockdown shows they "couldn’t give two hoots about liberty". However, they overestimated the risks of Covid due to government fear tactics, so it's not a 'fair test'.
