Health
Seeing red
Why should I have to wear a mask to give blood?
Nothing to applaud
The NHS is letting down thousands of patients
Cracking ideas
Understanding immunity to Covid-19 is like trying to decode Enigma
Pelosi goes full Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi skipped the sugarcoating and punched the President in the gut on Monday. Trump had announced to the…
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…
Disinfectant Donnie
Do you know what the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is? No, not the fauxtraged shrieks of liberals at everything the…
Coronavirus lockdowns are cowardice
This is a piece about death. Obviously death is a serious topic, perhaps as serious as anything you could possibly…
No, the coronavirus isn’t racist
It was just a matter of time before the coronavirus was leveraged as a tool of race politics. With the…
Beware the COVID-19 nannies!
COVID-19 has suddenly made much of the western public health establishment effectively redundant. Unused to dealing with infectious disease, we…
Life and death in New York City
No matter where in the apartment I am, if I sit very still, I hear a siren. Over the 18…
Age discrimination
Why does coronavirus affect the generations differently?
The virus is not invincible, but it’s exposing who’s irreplaceable
In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted,…
After the coronavirus, who wins the recovery?
We are living through a gruesome case study in the irrationality of elites. COVID-19 is a serious disease, but the…
Panic among the pigeons
Life is a risky business. Danger is everywhere. In New York, even the pigeons are a threat. A friend recalled…
How worried should we be?
Coronavirus may be more widespread than we think – and less deadly
My night in A&E
I wish I shared the Prime Minister’s confidence about the ability of the NHS to cope with coronavirus. ‘I have…
Feverish imaginations
The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria
Elbow
Before the Covid-19 scare I never thought that one particular Spanish proverb would come in useful. It goes: ‘Los ojos…
Donald Trump vs corona hysteria
I like to keep a couple of books within easy reach of my desk to remind myself what sort of…
The kindness of strangers
Having Parkinson’s has shown me a different side of society
Viral hit
How prepared is the UK for a pandemic?
We’re all the worse for drink
I’m not one of these teetotallers who frowns on people who imbibe, like an angsty ex-smoker who petulantly swats away…
Are childhood vaccination rates dropping?
Who speaks what The Chancellor, Sajid Javid, included a little Punjabi in his speech to the Tory conference. How many…
The reason middle-class parents are so anxious
On that record-breaking, sweltering day at the end of July, my three-year-old son did a pirouette in the paddling pool…
Proton therapy: Cancer revolution or costly white elephant?
It’s Asco week in Chicago: the biggest meeting of clinical oncologists in the world. McCormick Place convention centre, the largest…
