A windfall tax on oil giants would harm – not help – pensioners
Look up this year’s performance of the shares and bonds which make up your pension fund and you will see…
Make capitalism real again
The emergence of Covid provoked a worldwide economic crash. That lasted a mere four weeks. By the time western countries…
The Bank of England’s interest rate hike isn’t enough
There would have been times when the news ‘Bank of England doubles interest rates’ would have been met with a…
Two years on, what’s the evidence for lockdown?
Did lockdowns save lives? We will never have a definitive answer to this vital question because it was impossible to…
Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?
I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse…
The NHS vaccine mandate was bound to fail
Health Secretary Sajid Javid now looks set to drop his plans to sack unvaccinated NHS staff. It was almost inevitable…
The abandoned revolution
Has the government lost interest in Brexit?
Why Denmark has called for the end of Covid restrictions
England has been described by some as an outlier in that the government is lifting Plan B restrictions in spite…
Don’t bet on interest rates rising
So is this really it: the end of the era of virtually zero interest rates? There was a marked pullback…
Did Plan B work?
Today is England’s last day under Plan B restrictions, brought in by the government at the beginning of last month…
Entitled motorists have ruled the roads for far too long
Last week it was ‘operation red meat’, designed to recapture wavering Tory voters. This week something very different: changes to…
Ousting Boris Johnson now would be a mistake
There must come a time when even Beth Rigby starts to ask whether she is too fixatedon a small staff…
Banning tomato ketchup sachets won’t save the planet
Warning to the working classes: the government is coming after your pleasures again. It is you who are being blamed…
Does Boris believe in Brexit?
For once, yesterday’s Downing Street press conference included a worthwhile question, and not of the ‘why aren’t you locking us…
The problem with ‘vaccine equity’
‘A stain on our soul’. That was how Gordon Brown, in his latest missive on the subject, described the failure…
Does Warwick’s Omicron modelling make restrictions more likely?
Two weeks ago, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Imperial College both published modelling showing frightening…
Why warmer days in Alaska are not a sign of climate armageddon
It’s climate panic again. This time, under headlines such as ‘Baked Alaska’, we are informed that the most northerly US…
Remember panic-buying? Here’s what will happen next time
It’s post-Christmas, and there are already murmurs about supermarkets with empty shelves. Just as with the petrol shortage in September and…
Sage modellers start to accept that Omicron is milder
Public health officials in Britain and South Africa were on different planets for about a fortnight. While those in South Africa…
What does this South African study reveal about Omicron?
While the government’s policy on Omicron is being driven by modelling suggesting the possibility of a huge wave of hospitalisations…
Does Taiwan hold the answer to the lab leak theory?
It is nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the possibility that the Covid 19 pandemic could have…
Should we be scared of the Omicron variant?
Why is the government so scared of the Omicron variant? So far, most of the evidence we have for transmissibility…
What’s the point of vaccine passports?
What is the purpose of vaccine passports: to keep down infection or to try to persuade more people to get…
Why has Shell really decided to ditch the Cambo oil field?
One of the unfortunate side effects of a steeply rising oil price this year is that it seems to have…
How concerned should we be about Omicron?
Ministers accused of overreacting to the Omicron variant will feel vindicated by the comments of Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel.…
