Ill wind
Greenpeace’s strange silence about new dangers to whales
Science fiction
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
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,…
Code of conduct
The tangled tale of the discovery of DNA’s structure
Blown apart
The Tories’ wind power delusion
Flight risk
No bird species is immune from the latest virus
How to be PM
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…
The enemy within
Have we reached a new stage in the war against cancer?
The beast in the east
China appears not to have defeated Covid after all
Breathe easy
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…
Origin story
The lab leak theory just got even stronger
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
Two years in, there is no doubt the Covid pandemic began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But there is…
COP out
For China, the climate is a useful bargaining chip
Viral misinformation
Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins
A stunning revelation
Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, writes that ‘the last year has been an eye-opener for me.…
Dishing the dirt
The case against organic food
Not so batty
What was once a Covid conspiracy theory is looking more plausible
