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What we can learn from Britain’s rationing mistakes
Stresses and strains
The evolution of the virus is not random
Hot shots
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?
‘I don’t think that word means what you think it means,’ says the Spaniard Inigo Montoya in the film The…
Temper your excitement about the Covid vaccine
Ever since Giacomo Pylarini, a physician working in the Ottoman Empire, sent a report to the Royal Society in 1701…
Riding the wave
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives by building up immunity
Beast from the east
What we can learn from the Russian flu pandemic
The growing evidence on vitamin D and Covid
The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now…
Cracking the code
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
Chemical weapons
The contenders in the race to cure Covid
Age discrimination
Why does coronavirus affect the generations differently?
Like nothing we’ve known
I had believed this kind of infectious pandemic could not happen today
Off the bat
Why are they responsible for so many of our recent viruses?
Risky business
Britain needs to rediscover trial and error, serendipity and speed
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living…
The most dangerous thing about the Amazon fires is the apocalyptic rhetoric
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese expert on forests who also plays football, so when he shared a picture online of…
Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking
‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be…
Ignore the global warming hysteria: hurricanes are not getting worse
When I land on the east coast of America, people tell me they’ve never met a Trump voter. When I…
The eradication of South Georgia’s rats proves we can do anything – even Brexit
The extermination of every single one of South Georgia’s rats, for the sake of its birds, was confirmed at a…
Even if we could create genius ‘designer’ babies, there’s no demand for them
Christmas Day marks the birthday of one of the most gifted human beings ever born. His brilliance was of a…
More gas, less wind
The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the…
Diary
The Prosperity UK conference over a week ago kicked off with a dinner at Hatfield House that brought together Leavers…
Diary
‘A Bill to confer power on the prime minister to notify, under Article 50(2)…’. When it comes to the House…
Climate of ignorance
Global greening is the name given to a gradual, but large, increase in green vegetation on the planet over the…
Don’t grouse about grouse
The vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in southern Zimbabwe is slightly larger than County Durham, as well as much hotter and…
