Published by UnHerd (15th February, 2023) Will Britain, as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have both promised, really turn into the “next Silicon Valley”? It is bold talk. […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Why would you envy the NHS?
Published by UnHerd (18th January, 2023) They say the first step in fixing a crisis is to recognise there is a problem. So let us give thanks for […]
Aid / Economics / United States / World
Sam Bankman-Fried’s elitist altruism
Published by UnHerd (November 23rd, 2022) Elizabeth Holmes dressed in the same style every day: black turtleneck sweater, black slacks, and black low-slung shoes. This “uniform” underlined her […]
Health / Policy
Inside Britain’s psychiatric nightmare
Published by UnHerd (2nd August, 2022) There were still grim Victorian-era asylums dotted around Britain when Penelope Campling started out as a young psychiatrist almost 40 years ago. […]
China / Covid19 / World
How China made Covid worse
Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and […]
Africa / Politics / Rwanda
Andrew Mitchell’s friends in Rwanda
Published by UnHerd (6th December, 2021) Earlier this year, Baroness Kennedy was contacted by the two daughters of Paul Rusesabagina — human rights campaigner, winner of the US […]
Politics
The corruption of Britain
Published by UnHerd (5th October, 2021) Last week, a man called Malcolm Offord joined the Government as a minister in the Scottish Office. This was a surprising appointment. […]
Covid19
Is this proof of lab leak lies?
Published by UnHerd (10th September, 2021) There are many things we still do not know about the origins of this pandemic — including the central issue of whether it […]
Covid19 / Technology
Science journals have been corrupted by China
Published by UnHerd (13th August, 2021) Nine months ago, the scientific establishment’s determined efforts to stifle debate on the origins of the pandemic began to crumble with the […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But there is one area in which Britain indisputably […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?
Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued […]