Donald Trump’s ‘hunch’ about coronavirus is likely correct
Donald Trump is in the soup again, this time for appearing to reject the World Health Organisation’s estimate for the death…
Could coronavirus really trigger the next crash?
It’s a bloodbath in the markets, but by how much could the real, global economy be affected by the coronavirus…
Feverish imaginations
The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria
Coronavirus could be ‘black swan event’ that costs Trump the presidency
Donald Trump is, as we know, a noted germophobe. It would be richly ironic, then, if he missed out on…
The police are in thrall to Extinction Rebellion in Cambridge
When I read that police were invoking emergency powers at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Cambridge I thought: about time,…
Viral hit
How prepared is the UK for a pandemic?
Boris should take back control from the House of Lords
I imagine that in recommending Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke for peerages, Boris Johnson sees himself in engaging in a…
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
In contrast to prophets of doom, who get invited to Davos, asked to address the UN and are able to…
Climate change isn’t responsible for Australia’s hailstorms
It was pretty inevitable that once rain finally started to fall in South Eastern Australia, extinguishing some of the bushfires…
Forget moving the Lords – lets have an elected senate instead
In two weeks’ time, we will finally escape the European Union, freeing ourselves from its monumental waste. Waste, that is,…
David Attenborough is making the same mistake as Greta Thunberg
It wasn’t so long ago that Sir David Attenborough came across as a calm voice of reason. His much-admired documentaries…
There’s a long way to go before Trump can declare victory in his trade war
There is no shortage of quotes by Donald Trump that his opponents have tried to use against him — few…
What Meghan’s new fans like to ignore
What would it take to convert Afua Hirsch to the cause of capitalism? We now know the answer because the…
Could this be the beginning of the end for Iran’s mullahs?
It is easy to construct a scenario in which tit for tat actions by the Americans and Iranians lead to…
Boris Johnson and the Tories should fear a weak opposition
We have a likely candidate who allegedly told one of her colleagues ‘I’m glad my constituents aren’t as stupid as…
Scott Morrison is right – Australia’s bushfires aren’t down to climate change
I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way…
Why Labour will struggle to win back the working class vote
Just how could the Conservatives win so many seats in working class areas in the Midlands and North, areas which…
I’m calling it: Boris is going to win this election
I am going to stick my neck out and say it’s going to be Boris by 58 seats. How do…
Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change
Why can’t the great and good of the climate establishment mention higher temperatures, disappearing sea ice and rising sea levels…
John McDonnell wasn’t joking when he vowed to overthrow capitalism
John McDonnell this morning invited Phones4U entrepreneur John Caudwell around for a cup of tea. If I were Caudwell I…
Trevor Rene’s battle to stay in Britain
When Boris Johnson edited this magazine, it proposed an amnesty for illegal immigrants — a controversial notion, but an idea…
The unseemly race to increase the size of the state
‘Elect me once more and we will finish off socialism for good,’ declared Mrs Thatcher before the 1987 general election,…
Corbyn is right to condemn Boris’s cynical fracking u-turn
For once, Jeremy Corbyn is right. The government’s announcement of a moratorium in fracking is an election stunt – and…
Toxic regulations, not the fire brigade, are to blame for the Grenfell deaths
It has been bizarre to hear the London Fire Brigade taking the brunt of the blame for the deaths of…
Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change
This year’s Nobel Prize for the silliest piece of scientific research must go to something called the Climate Accountability Institute,…
