Covid-19 Has Killed More British People Than The Blitz In World War II
Between the United Kingdom’s declaration of war on the German Reich in September 1939 and the latter’s capitulation in MayContinue Reading
Tag: Coronavirus
Ending The Lockdown In Ireland. Too Fast, Too Soon?
Though the Fine Gael-led Government seems determined to speed up the country’s transition through the various stages of the lockdownContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Lockdown: Picnics In The Phoenix Park, Accommodation In The Farmleigh Estate
While it would be unfair to place Leo Varadkar’s “picnic controversy” in the same scandalous category as that of DominicContinue Reading
Donald Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine, An Unproven Covid-19 Treatment
Strongmen and their doctors. Throughout human history there have been innumerable cases of autocratic leaders whose whims and obsessions haveContinue Reading
Piers Morgan Highlights The Utter Chaos Of The UK’s Covid-19 Response
While the journalist and television presenter Piers Morgan has known no end of controversies and scandal in his long mediaContinue Reading
How Fake News And Fake Facts Are Being Used To Undermine The Lockdown
With some business leaders beginning to push for a premature end to the Covid-19 lockdown across the country, and withContinue Reading
Stay At Home
For the last few months I have found myself in a rather unfamiliar category of employment: the somewhat nebulously definedContinue Reading
UK Coronavirus Death Toll Over 41,000, More Than Double Official Figures
An extraordinary story from the Financial Times in London and one that will almost certainly be replicated in many otherContinue Reading
The David McWilliams’ Podcast #53
Another episode of the David McWilliams’ Podcast on YouTube featuring discussions about the economy, both now and in the nearContinue Reading
Through Brexit And Covid-19 Britain Has Become The Sick Man Of Europe
What on earth has happened to the United Kingdom? How did one of the more prosperous nation-states in the world,Continue Reading
The UK’s Coronavirus Response. Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know
Over the last few days I have had a rather testy exchange by email with a commentator from a northernContinue Reading
Beware The Andrew Cuomo Whisperers
As the world goes to hell in a handbasket, to use the American phrase, this article in Current Affairs magazineContinue Reading
The UK Response To The Coronavirus Endangers All Of Us
Incompetence or deliberate intent? That is the question in the minds of many observers as they look at the muddledContinue Reading
Joe Biden. The Right Candidate At The Wrong Time?
If the coronavirus crisis has shown us anything else, it’s that the issue of ageism and a lack of deepContinue Reading
Excusing The DUP, UUP, Alliance Support For The UK’s Discredited Herd Immunity Policy
It is now commonly accepted that people in the northern half of the country, the elderly and the vulnerable, thoseContinue Reading
Coronavirus, Herd Immunity And The UK’s Darwinist Response
Can it really be true as the international media is speculating? That the Conservative Party government in the United KingdomContinue Reading
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