The history of Covid 19 is a tale of experts who turned out to be ignorant, lording it over lay folk who believed that ‘Covid policy’ was a hysterical, eye-wateringly expensive overreaction that defied common sense. I was always sceptical of the claims of the MRNA vaccine makers that their product was ‘safe and effective’. […]

And what happens when the magic wears off? The title of this post is not meant to be rhetorical. Look, I haven’t actually watched any of the pabulum produced by the Sussexes under their Netflix deal. There are people who are paid to do that, and who therefore cannot complain about the nausea they experience […]

When Russia invaded Ukraine early this year, I fully expected Joe Biden, the man who, by his abandonment of Afghanistan, executed the most shameful scuttle in American history, to emulate the response of his predecessor Barak Obama, to Russia’s 2014 capture of Crimea – plenty of orotundly-phrased rhetoric, perhaps a bit of limp-wristed, largely cosmetic […]

Those of us who, at the outset of the Covid 19 epidemic, were sceptical of the pronouncements of the ‘experts’ had so many reasons for our doubts that it is difficult to keep track of them as, one by one, they are vindicated. We doubted the severity of the disease. Even as it was known […]

The orthodox view of Covid is that it escaped its Chinese home in January 2020. The orgy of wealth-destruction that ensued was justified on the grounds that it was an especially virulent organism, capable of decimating the human race – a contagion we could expect to see no more than once in a century, and […]

Was it really such a bad idea to deprive Saddam of the power that Putin is now using to threaten us? In Two Cheers for Sir Tony, I revealed myself as a lonely, and rather reluctant champion of Tony Blair’s decision to join ‘Dubya’ in invading Iraq. My argument was (and is) that it didn’t […]

John Anderson interviews Dr Jay Bhattacharya & Gigi Foster For anyone who belongs to that fast-dwindling cohort of society who ever thought locking society down, and coercing people to take a ‘vaccine’ ‘to protect society’ was a terrific idea, this conversation between ex-Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson and Dr Jay Bhattacharya (Great Barrington Declaration) and […]

Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it I’ve just had a gender reassignment. Well, two, actually. It’s been a busy day. I was having my car washed at Market Town, in Leichhardt. I’d neglected to go for a wee before I left home, but I figured, no problem, I’m going to a shopping mall, and […]

I’ve just watched an excellent Uncommon Knowledge interview with the Danish-born statistician Bjorn Lomborg, best-known for his book ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’. I should declare at this stage that, although I’ve read a great deal else that he’s written, I haven’t actually read TSE. So far as I can tell, then, Lomborg believes both that the […]

I’m a monarchist. I’m not a royalist. Royalists have the sentimental attachment to royalty which republicans insist is all there is to monarchism. Monarchists believe that the British Monarchy is the finest solution that has ever been devised to the problem of how to organise society along Utilitarianist lines, that is, in the interests of […]