Bill Dod, an anchor for the RT UK News channel, recently posted on Twitter a clip of himself and his colleagues clapping for carers. Dod’s career experience includes stints as a quiz show host on the Carlton Food Network and a location reporter on the Travel Channel, and he may not have quite grasped the […]
Last week the Office for Budget Responsibility showed us heading for the largest fiscal shock since the Second World War. At the Centre for Policy Studies we dug a little deeper into the OBR’s numbers and the latest modelling from others to assess the scale of the repair job that will be needed. What we […]
We’re going to walk from a public health crisis into an economic one. Stock markets are crashing, oil prices plummeting and big high street names running out of cash and falling into administration. You can put an economy in effective stasis for a short while – we basically do so every Christmas and various bits […]
The Covid-19 epidemic is one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most high-profile, public health crises of the past hundred years. Yet the reputations of some of the highest-profile organisations dedicated to this topic must be counted amongst its victims. At home, Public Health England’s ham-fisted approach to testing has been partly blamed […]
Anti-Semitism unites far-right, far-left, and Islamist extremists. The cross-ideological exploitation of the pandemic has seen the anti-Semitic ‘Ring of Fire’ come to the fore. What ties these extremists is a shared belief that Western market-based societies are constructed to serve the financial interests of the international Jewry. The imaginary enemy is an all-powerful, transnational Jewish […]
Millennials who do not live with their parents should be the first people released from the UK coronavirus lockdown. That is the conclusion of our new research which is being studied in Whitehall by officials. The move would be one part of a possible exit strategy the government could implement in the coming weeks and […]
For all the Government’s advice to stay at home and save lives, for millions of Britons home may be the least safe place to be. The virus has created a perfect storm for victims of domestic abuse. A sharp reduction in support services, combined with a surge in unemployment means cases of abuse are likely […]
As the Covid-19 death toll mounts, there’s a strong temptation to look elsewhere and wonder what might have been. ‘We could have been Germany / Korea / Sweden …’ the argument goes, if only the Government had taken certain actions at certain times. A good example of the genre cropped up in the Guardian earlier […]
Covid-19, Ebola, HIV, SARS, TB, Zika, even the Black Death – what do these diseases all have in common? They are all zoonotic diseases – infectious diseases caused by the transfer of bacteria, viruses or parasites from animals into humans. These diseases often make the jump from other mammals and in some cases can come […]
There’s been much talk this week of how pessimistic the Office for Budget Responsibility are about the likely economic impact of coronavirus. Most media outlets ran with the headline that the pandemic “could see the economy shrink by a record 35%” in the second quarter, and the OBR are predicting that for 2020 overall GDP […]
As John Stuart Mill put it: “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.” We know in detail that the Chinese Communist Party wilfully withheld evidence about the scope, extent, and ease of human to human transmission of the coronavirus. If the Chinese government were a person, it would […]
The go-to tool for puncturing outlandish conspiracy theories is Occam’s razor, the principle that the simplest explanation for something is also the most likely to be true. For example, maybe Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne’s departure from her trademark tomboyish look is evidence that she died in 2002 and was replaced by a clone, as […]
How glorious it is that the demands of Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion are coming true. We are putting a significant brake on carbon emissions by strongly limiting the rampant overconsumption of our society. Granted, no one seems very happy at those carbon dioxide emissions falling by 5% – or 2.5 billion tonnes – this […]
As the UK enters its fourth week of lockdown. Covid-19 has brought business to a grinding halt. Not only are people’s lives at risk, but so are their livelihoods. The Government therefore needs an exit strategy and it needs one now. If it waits until the health experts give the all clear then it will […]
Within four months, the UK will have 66,314 fatalities from Covid-19, according to a recent report from the University of Washingon’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). This would result in the UK having the highest number of fatalities out of any country in Europe – according to the report, more than Italy (a […]
As an avid Star Wars fan, Rishi Sunak will be familiar with the resourcefulness and guile of Han Solo as he escapes many tight spots and tricky scenarios through the films. Likewise, the British economy is up against it and peering over the crumbling precipice, looking down into the abyss of coronavirus. Just as Captain […]
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