...they “are not good enough” to see all curbs lifted “without a big epidemic”. All legal limits on social contact were to be abolished by June 21st as part of...
...NPIs tends to split down party lines. A signature of progressivism is the abuse and (attempted) ‘cancellation’ of anyone who objects to its ‘truth’. This now includes anyone who dares...
...2009 called When Boris Met Dave that you can watch here. The dramatised bits are rubbish, but the interviews are very good. https://vimeo.com/269620748 Consequently, I was interested to read a...
...of 1918 (note that overseas deaths including war casualties are not included). Total deaths in England and Wales, 1838-2020 However, as a proportion of population, it was only the worst...
...the (admittedly counter-intuitive) notion of spontaneous order. Freedoms, as always, need to be prised from the cold grip of the administrative state. And as Hannan notes, the costs of the...
...Phil Sacre thinks not “EU lawyers demand immediate access to UK-made AstraZeneca vaccines” – The European Union is demanding that AstraZeneca immediately deliver vaccines from its factory in the UK,...
Throughout the pandemic, governments have claimed to be following “the science”. But of course, many aspects of “the science” were never settled. The WHO, as well as the UK Government,...
...polished counter-visualisations that would not be out of place in scientific papers, health department reports, and publications like the Financial Times”. * “Qualitative analysis of anti-mask groups gives us an...
...might be if we had the same farming interests as our neighbours, for example). We often take pleasure in sunsets and expect everyone to share in our pleasure, although our...
...they’re loth to interrupt. Here is an extract: If the Covid experience is indeed an aesthetic experience, the impotence of our counter arguments, our practical concerns and our personal pains...
