Any protest which threatens the Cenotaph is a travesty
Every year I lay a wreath a week early, because Blyth, my nearest town, was a submarine port. Submariners were…
The new age of gullibility
The new age of gullibility
Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?
Greenpeace’s strange silence about new dangers to whales
Science fiction: the crisis in research
The crisis in research
Why I’m sceptical about a superconductor breakthrough
A team of South Korean scientists has pre-printed a paper asserting that they have achieved superconductivity at room temperature and…
Wuhan clan: we finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid
We finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid
My unexpected lunch with Nigel Lawson
When I joined the House of Lords in 2013 I soon realised that, despite its poor reputation, the place contained…
Did Covid really originate in Wuhan’s seafood market?
There is new evidence pointing to the origin of Covid being in the seafood market in Wuhan. That, at least,…
Who really discovered DNA’s structure?
The tangled tale of the discovery of DNA’s structure
The Tories’ wind power delusion
The Tories’ wind power delusion
What’s killing our birds?
No bird species is immune from the latest virus
How to be PM: ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?
The BBC carried a story this week with the headline ‘Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market’. Bizarrely…
Could a vaccine for cancer be within reach?
Have we reached a new stage in the war against cancer?
China may be facing its greatest Covid crisis yet
China appears not to have defeated Covid after all
Breathe easy: how respiratory viruses evolve to become milder
How respiratory viruses evolve to become milder
Letter from Kenya
My wife and I were lucky to escape for a long-delayed birdwatching holiday in Kenya over Christmas. To have been…
Don’t blame deforestation for the pandemic
With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the Covid pandemic, the Chinese…
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
The lab leak theory just got even stronger
