Just two observations this morning - one critically important, the other of minor interest. The first of course is the news that the WHO has...

Science is galloping along at a healthy pace, thanks to the Wuhan virus. All over the world, medical and pharma researchers and practitioner...

Unlike UK licence plates, which belong to a particular car, Austrian plates are issued to an insured driver by the insurance companies on be...

The deaths - all causes stats are the ones to watch today. Looking at the shape of pandemic death curves, those that include all excess deat...

The smug complacency of the Whitehall establishment prior to the impact of the Wuhan virus was sickening. They were - and are - convinced th...

At slightly different speeds and in slightly different ways, the nations of the Western world are now moving together into Phase II of their...

Spare a moment this morning, if you will, to feel the pain of the EUphiles. The Wuhan virus has targeted the old, and has targeted BAME pers...

Following a previous post in which I outlined the early and sketchy evidence from China that suggested that smokers had some immunity to Cov...

In the inevitable post-Covid inquiry, if it is conducted honestly, it will be found that we lost lives in part because of our over-centralis...

Christian Wolmar writes knowledgeably about the madcap race for railways in the nineteenth century; fortunes were won and lost, risks were h...

The sewer press must move on. Murdoch has done his globalist best to throw shit at Boris, after it became clear that having already left the...

For the past two or three weeks the BBC has run out of contemporary recordings of change ringing for the 2-minute 'Bells on Sunday' ...

The Wuhan virus will not only change the world, it is set to provide evidence for scholars of social and economic theories for the next cent...

Just as the EU's manifold and abysmal failures to co-ordinate the 27 nations of the EU during the Wuhan virus crisis are becoming clear...

When, a couple of weeks ago, the death figures for w/e 20th March came out, I commented that we'd have to wait until the first week or s...

With the news that Boris is out and convalescing I'm sure we all breathed a huge sigh of relief. The latest polls give us a lead of more...

Supply chains, maritime trade, nearshoring and onshoring manufacturing from China and the far East, diversification ( HT Mr Drew and C@W ) a...

I've always hated waste. Not just cost, or carelessness, but the idea of waste. I never accepted that 10% of bricks or roof tiles would ...

There are three malign motives driving many of the mainstream media in the UK. First is Brexit - which many London journalists have great di...

With that title, I expect for some time we'll get disappointed google searchers hitting this page; internet users are a weird lot. An ol...