This post first appeared, along with the cartoon, in the Australian Sensible Centre newsletter The momentous implications of the shutdown strategy imposed on the country…
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I spent last Sunday walking on the South Downs Way to Chanctonbury Ring. Partly because it is a beautiful spot and party because I work…
It has been an irritating fact of life that successive health ministers have been so avidly keen to assure us of their passion for the…
Hans Castorp, the young scion of burghers of Hamburg, travels to the Swiss Alps to spend three weeks with his sick cousin in a sanatorium….
The Overton Window is a model for how ideas change over time and how these ideas influence what happens in politics. It is named after…
Despite the low mortality, covid-19 still poses a serious problem. It is highly contagious; in 5 per cent of cases, it creates severe respiratory problems…
Earth Day was yesterday (April 22). This clean world with clear skies and empty roads that we have been forced to inhabit these past few…
People keep asing me how my book Tickbox is doing, as if publishers tell me anything about that kind of thing. I suspect that, like…
One of the most persistent questions in the media is ‘When will schools re-open?’ Teachers are still working, however, and many schools are physically open…
“Ludendorff: The English soldiers fight like lions. Hoffmann: True. But don’t we know that they are lions led by donkeys.” Even though I did not…
The Overton Window is a model for how ideas change over time and how these ideas influence what happens in politics. It is named after…
Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease in which an infectious agent specific to animals manages to pass to humans. The current virus – like its…