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Public Risks and Institutions
From our Swindon Correspondent: From Unherd The Centre for Long-Term Resilience report, co-authored by Toby Ord, a professor…
Working Hours
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the BBC While the study did not cover the period of the pandemic, WHO…
Tradeoffs Of Privacy
From our Swindon correspondent: From the BBC The NHS is revising the booking system for Covid-19 jabs in England…
Bill Gates Is Actually Right About Patents On Covid Vaccines
One of the joys of this story is that we gain the opportunity to insult Nick Dearden: Nick…
The French On The Risks Of Vaccination
The Precautionary Principle can be taken too far. This being a common complaint about modern politics and politics…
So Why Do You Want More of It?
From our Swindon Correspondent: From Simon Jenkins in The Guardian No government in Europe has had an easy ride…
A Modest Proposal About The Coronavirus
Why do not the Covid-19 lockdowns and other nonpharmaceutical interventions have to meet the same strict standard in…
Grayson Perry And Creative Destruction In The Arts
Given that Grayson Perry does work in the arts world he’s clearly not going to use the usual…
It’s The Benefits Of Agglomeration That Covid Will Cost Us
One of those things that is definitely true but the interesting – and unknown – part is going…
Heads on Spikes
From our Swindon Correspondent: Not quite literally, but metaphorically, this is where you’d be after this as a…