It is becoming a drearily familiar experience for me to receive emails from social media platforms informing me that my content has been removed for violating “community guidelines” prohibiting the dissemination of “dangerous or misleading information.” Usually, this is shorthand for any piece of evidence or analysis contradicting an official statement by a public health […]
Government incompetence is no match for religious fanaticism
I remember a colleague recounting an anecdote about an election in England. During the campaign period the Labour candidate accused his Conservative counterpart of going around the constituency “whipping up apathy”! Well there’s no need to whip up any apathy among a recent mission area of mine: it lies thick on the ground and the […]
If there’s a lesson to learn from Putin, it is in the value of governing in your national self interest.
Covid vaccines do affect menstrual cycles, studies find
The appalling human cost of the Nigerian Civil War foreshadowed the conflict in Ukraine
Taxing the childless, and other pro-natalist ideas
Since November of 1990 the Conservative and Unionist party has been searching its ranks for the reincarnation of Mrs. Thatcher.
A decade ago, the idea that we might ever effectively mandate vaccination and lock the great unwashed out of society would have been universally regarded as extreme.
Many of the centre left and centre right deputies abstained or were not present for the votes.
A believer in practical reasonableness rather than pipedreams
Mr Trump, now, is Biden’s best and likely only hope at a second term.