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We’ve failed the class of 2020
Much of the coverage of today’s exam results is dominated by disappointed Jacks and furious Jills. Determined parents are planning…
Why are so many dictators former doctors?
Are we increasingly living under a ‘doctatorship’? The influence of the medical profession over our everyday lives – from personal…
What’s the true cost of lockdown on our kids’ futures?
We’ve heard endless statistics on the likely death toll from Covid-19, and over the past week we have learned just…
Why are we so sniffy about the Russian vaccine?
It didn’t help that it was unveiled by a swaggering Vladimir Putin. Or that it was called Sputnik V –…
The hidden costs of Covid
We do not know what the long-term impact of coronavirus will be on mental health. We are still not through…
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
A statistical tweak has just cut England’s Covid death toll by 5,000
Public Health England has changed its definition of deaths. The new definition is now death in a person with a…
Cuomo’s nursing home death blame game
A major Associated Press report this week dove into New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death count and found the numbers…
The war for your mind
The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…
The case for a new Act of Union
Scexit, not Brexit, will be the word that defines Boris Johnson’s premiership. The Times has a new poll from YouGov…
Spare us Ben & Jerry’s lecture on the Channel migrant crisis
Multi-millionaire virtue-signallers Ben and Jerry are at it again. Once again the ice-cream capitalists are doing their woke schtick in…
Could mass testing for Covid-19 do more harm than good?
Making a diagnosis used to be a well understood and practised procedure: take a history from someone presenting with symptoms,…
Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?
Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…
The mysterious fall of the teenage pregnancy
Across the globe, teenage pregnancy rates have been falling for at least the last 10 years but social scientists still…
Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?
News of Kamala Harris’s selection as Joe Biden’s running mate was greeted by everything but the popping of champagne corks…
President Kamala, mistress of puppets?
So, will it be President Kamala Harris after all? You might think so. After all, whoever Joe Biden’s ventriloquist is…
Kamala Harris ticks all Biden’s boxes
With his selection of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden bowed time the inevitable. Harris ticks all the boxes — Bay Area…
Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate
In a rare win for the police, Joe Biden has selected California senator Kamala Harris to join him on the…
Donald Trump isn’t mad
It is alarming how psychiatric diagnoses have crept into the political commentary. Donald Trump, we’ve been told, has narcissistic personality…
Trump’s Art of the Executive Order
The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…
Britain isn’t racist
In the last few months we’ve been told that Britain is a fundamentally racist society, that the colour of your…
Britain: summer flu is now more deadly than Covid
Britain is, of course, in the middle of a deadly pandemic of a novel infectious disease. It’s just that it…
How dangerous is Covid? A Swedish doctor’s perspective
I want to preface this article by stating that it is entirely anecdotal and based on my experience working as…
Can Taiwan pull off its China gamble?
When Alex Azar, the US health secretary, arrived in Taipei on Sunday, he became the highest-ranking US official to visit…
