The Spectator this evening in their daily bulletin revealed what they appear to have on good authority is the Prime Minister's exit strategy for the UK: 'The Prime Minister is poised to adopt a cautious approach that will disappoint many of his MPs: next week’s review of the lockdown will lead only to the mildest... Continue Reading →

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality figures for week 16 (11-17 April) were published this morning at 9:30am. They make for grim reading. This is the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in the UK. (As the ONS figures use date of registration rather than date of death the peak is shifted by a few... Continue Reading →

You would never know from the government’s messages – from the daily press conferences to the barrage of ‘stay at home, save lives’ public information – that the peak of deaths in the UK, so critical in influencing views over exiting lockdown, happened weeks ago. Twenty-three days ago in London, on April 4, and 19... Continue Reading →

With the government now threatening the maintenance of social distancing measures for the rest of the year to minimise the ‘second wave’ of coronavirus which could be worse than the first, the question is whether this second wave is more than a spectre. It has become abundantly clear that the limited number of scientists and... Continue Reading →

At last, opponents of the encroachment of transgender ideology into our schools will get their day in court. Last week a High Court judge ruled on a case brought by a 13-year-old girl against Oxfordshire county council and found that it is arguable that the ‘Trans Inclusion Toolkit for Schools 2019’, which their schools are... Continue Reading →

As rumours of a government plan to begin easing lockdown on 11 May (already several weeks after many European countries) were quashed by Michael Gove, sceptics of lockdown madness and dissenting scientists have continued to voice their concerns. At the weekend it was the turn of Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists and... Continue Reading →

I do not intend to defend everything every populist leader has ever said or done. All leaders are flawed and many, populist or otherwise, do things that I, like others, would regard as authoritarian and immoral. The question though is not whether every action by a populist leader can be defended – it would be... Continue Reading →

In a week when the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast a 35 per cent fall in real GDP and an unemployment spike of up to 10 per cent (equating to 2million people newly out of work), the government must be more aware than ever of the need to get the lockdown lifted as soon as... Continue Reading →