Studio slavishness to the CCP was for nothing | Continue reading
It's safer to become a podcaster than tell a good joke | Continue reading
Experts advocated an intervention they once thought useless | Continue reading
Chronic illness influencers are faking it to make it | Continue reading
We have outsourced morality to machines | Continue reading
The dissident thinker predicted our disordered times | Continue reading
In a pandemic we should do the thing that kills fewer people | Continue reading
Since its discovery in the Gauteng province of South Africa in November, a new Covid variant has set off a spiral of harsh restrictions, travel bans and questions about the efficacy of the existing two-dose vaccines. Dr Angelique Coetzee, the scientist who first raised the alarm … | Continue reading
Profit is more important than the menace of evil | Continue reading
The semicolon is a profound public mystery; the only punctuation mark that regularly unites readers and writers in deep-seated repugnance. Time to celebrate then — this week researchers at Lancaster University announced that semicolon use is becoming rarer in British fiction, fal … | Continue reading
First and foremost, he just wanted to solve puzzles | Continue reading
Reason has been superseded by the need to obey | Continue reading
San Francisco, the cult writer Delicious Tacos observed recently, is an avant-garde city. Whatever happens there will be everywhere else in five years’ time. If he’s right, three recent San Francisco stories should give us pause: taken together, they suggest urbanist Joel Kotkin … | Continue reading
The death toll here is lower than nations with draconian restrictions | Continue reading
Corrupt politicians care little for the fracturing nation | Continue reading
Hunter-gatherers knew how to raise strong children | Continue reading
Draconian rules are suppressing our humanity | Continue reading
While the elites get rich, the working class suffer | Continue reading
Will the city ever recover from its pursuit of Zero Covid? | Continue reading
Facebook want you to join them on the Metaverse. The Metaverse is the company’s Next Big Thing, and where they see the internet going: an online world of total wraparound experience, a lot more like the Lawnmower Man version than what we have now. They released a statement this w … | Continue reading
Today's feminists, when dating, are coldly mercenary | Continue reading
Of all the celebrities that have been created during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Swedish State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is perhaps the most surprising. A softly-spoken official within the Swedish Health Agency, he has quietly been going about his work monitoring inf … | Continue reading
The quality of the company's secret research into mental health is abysmal | Continue reading
The failings of WHO’s Covid-19 policies are extensive, especially in the world’s poor countries. Today, I spoke to ex-Médecins-Sans-Frontières (MSF) Deputy Head for the Emergency Unit in Spain, Llanos Ortíz Montero, who laid out in grim detail just how badly these countries have … | Continue reading
The refugee crisis changed the country, and its politics, forever | Continue reading
Just in case you’ve never heard of it, Evergrande is China’s second largest property development company. It has 1,300 projects spread over hundreds of Chinese cities, but more to the point it is $300 billion in debt. Evergrande’s share price this year has fallen on fears that th … | Continue reading
Policy can't change the fact that risk is a part of life | Continue reading
Lockdown has revealed the Government's impotence | Continue reading
Film critics have never been so weak or timid | Continue reading
Wealthy states treat Eastern Europe as a colony | Continue reading
It was supposed to destroy the financial elite — but has only made them stronger | Continue reading
The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty | Continue reading
Freddie deBoer is a full-on socialist and also a former teacher. He’s therefore the last person you’d expect to doubt the effectiveness of more spending on schools. And yet he’s looked at the data and is hard-pressed to find a link between educational expenditure and educational … | Continue reading
A major study conducted by Israeli researchers into natural immunity has found that immunity acquired via infection from Covid-19 is superior to immunity from the Pfizer vaccine. Researchers at Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University compared the outcomes of over 76,000 Israel … | Continue reading
The dissident 'post-Left' mocks the Democrats' progressive agenda | Continue reading
The latest psychology scandal is a reminder of an old principle | Continue reading
America cares more about pronouns than the fate of Afghan women | Continue reading
A new eco-movement would sacrifice millions of lives | Continue reading
There has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people? Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in … | Continue reading
There has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people? Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in … | Continue reading
Social justice movements won't cure inequality | Continue reading
There has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people? Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in … | Continue reading
If there’s one thing media reporting over the last 18 months has taught us, it’s that when it comes to Covid, no headline is too sensational, and no prediction too dire. Glance over the Twitter feeds or websites of most newspapers, and it is hard not to sometimes wonder if the Ar … | Continue reading
Mandatory passes could provoke a new Gilets Jaunes movement | Continue reading
Keeping silent is the price of a successful career | Continue reading
A report on India’s excess mortality published on Tuesday by the Center for Global Development. The report’s authors estimated total excess deaths in India over the past 15 months at a staggering 4.9 million. In other words, if mortality rates over these months had resembled thos … | Continue reading