The great climate climbdown is finally here
Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed…
The end of the climate cult
Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed…
Are we finally about to crack fusion energy?
Imagine dropping a pea-sized capsule through a spherical chamber and hitting it with a colossal bolt of laser energy as…
America thinks Britain is finished
‘What’s missing?’ the tech titan Peter Thiel asks me, over lunch on the hummingbird-infested patio of his house in the…
Labour’s class war on moorland
This year has been a bad one for wildfires in Britain. In June, nearly 30,000 acres burned near Carrbridge in…
Welcome to the age of de-extinction
Colossal, a $10 billion biotech firm with a knack of grabbing headlines, has announced it is on the way to…
The cultification of science
My, how we all laughed. Thirty years ago the physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed a social science journal into publishing a…
Survival of the hottest: evolution’s fun side has been long overlooked
The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.…
The North Sea ship collision is likely to be cock-up rather than conspiracy
This week’s ship collision off the Humber could have been much worse. Just one person is unaccounted for and one other needed…
Will ‘The Seeker’ find the truth about the Covid lab leaks?
At the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, where ghosts of British nabobs look out over the racecourse, my neuroscientist wife spoke…
Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?
Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed…
How I fell foul of YouTube’s fact-checkers
The day after Mark Zuckerberg said fact-checkers ‘have destroyed more trust than they have created’ I experienced why he has…
Wuhan wager: the $400 ‘bio bet’ that predicted the pandemic
At the end of this month, one of the world’s most renowned scientists will send $400 to a charity to…
How ‘experts’ led to the rise of RFK Jr.
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr — who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…
The ‘experts’ who enabled RFK Jr’s rise
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr – who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…
Dam shame: what really caused Valencia’s floods?
Who is to blame for the devastating floods that hit Valencia on 29 October? The mob that surrounded King Felipe…
How Ed Miliband plans to conjure electricity out of nothing
Electricity is magical stuff. From a couple of tiny holes in a wall comes an apparently endless supply of invisible,…
Is another pandemic really inevitable?
Future pandemics as bad as Covid are ‘a certainty’, says Sir Chris Whitty. He is right in one sense. So…
Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins
At the age of 66 I feel like a first-time voter. As a member of the House of Lords, I…
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…
Fools’ paradise
The new age of gullibility
