They're not even pretending any more. Confronted with a future of an ageing population with not enough children to renew the workforce and pay the taxes to keep the show on the road, rather than wondering what we might do urgently to boost family life, they celebrate it as a victory for women’s liberation and... Continue Reading →

The second wave is here! In Catalonia in Spain and in a few states in the southern United States the doomsayers have found what they were looking for: proof that all this continued social distancing and now enforced mask-wearing is worth it. The narrative has been sealed by swift and decisive UK government action to... Continue Reading →

As in London and New York, so now in Delhi. Results from a survey in the Indian capital released this week show 23.5 per cent antibody rate for the coronavirus. This figure, from a survey of 21,387 citizens conducted between June 27 and July 10 by the Indian Centre for Disease Control, is similar to... Continue Reading →

Well-known theologian Tom Wright has said it is "crazy" to ignore the science on coronavirus, calling it both "fascinating and worrying" that some Christians are reluctant to believe the scientific community's expert opinion on the disease. What Dr Wright is failing to acknowledge is that the scientific community does not have one expert opinion on coronavirus and... Continue Reading →

In the past couple of weeks there has been a spike in coronavirus deaths in some of the more populous states in the southern USA. California, Florida, Texas and Arizona in particular have seen a marked rise in deaths (you can see the latest data here) and there are reports that hospitals and ICUs in the... Continue Reading →

One of the least pleasant aspects of living in Covid Britain is having the parameters of one’s life so closely defined by the Prime Minister, as though we are living not in a modern liberal democracy but in a weird clone of North Korea. I tune in each day to find out what Boris Johnson... Continue Reading →

I feel I need to apologise to readers for my failure to write on abortion lately given everything that’s been going on. This was partly because I was too miffed at the underhand and anti-democratic way the abortion lobby was carrying on (and to make things worse, largely getting away with it), and partly because... Continue Reading →

In recent online conversations about coronavirus I am finding increasing numbers of people who are moving towards a more sceptical position on the lockdown but unaware of the sceptics’ arguments and evidence as it has evolved since the virus reached our shores. I got the feeling they would appreciate a primer or at least a... Continue Reading →

Deaths in England and Wales were below average as of June 19, according to the latest release from the Office of National Statistics. The same is true in the UK as a whole. The continued Covid-19 deaths each day need to be understood in that context, as does the ‘surge’ in Leicester. It’s hard to believe... Continue Reading →

Systemic racism, according to those who campaign against it, is the disadvantage experienced by ethnic minorities on account of the bias, conscious and subconscious, that some people, particularly from the ethnic majority, have in respect of them. Even though racial discrimination in most contexts is unlawful, it still happens, and the impact falls largely on... Continue Reading →