Recent headlines would have us believe that 2022 was an unusually deadly year, because of a "crisis" in the NHS. As a matter of fact, 2022 was the third least-deadly year ever in England and Wales.
It's unclear that Ukraine can win decisively with the current level of assistance. Yet Western leaders seem reluctant to give substantially more. So why aren't they pushing both sides to negotiate?
In a recent interview, French historian Emmanuel Todd argues that the war in Ukraine is really about Germany. When asked who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, he said, "Of course the Americans."
Oxford has launched an "investigation" into an email sent by a don 26 years ago when he was an LSE undergraduate. If someone says they told an off-colour joke when they were 14, is Oxford going to look into that too?
Lord Hannan has lamented that Brits' support for lockdown shows they "couldn’t give two hoots about liberty". However, they overestimated the risks of Covid due to government fear tactics, so it's not a 'fair test'.
We recently published an analysis suggesting that vaccination of the elderly saved lives. Here the author addresses one objection, and reaffirms that voluntary vaccination of high-risk groups was the right strategy.
A study claiming the 2014 Maidan massacre was a false-flag attack by the Ukrainian far-right was rejected from a journal after initially being accepted. According to both reviewers, the paper was "excellent".
Excess mortality is negatively related to elderly vaccination in both Europe and the U.S. Focussed protection culminating in voluntary vaccination of high-risk groups was the right strategy, argues Noah Carl.
First it was: "Sweden's a disaster!" Then it was: "Sweden did worse than its neighbours!" The latest excess mortality estimates from the ONS show that Sweden did *better* than three out of four other Nordic countries.
Writing in the Spectator recently, Cold War veteran Henry Kissinger outlined a peace plan for Ukraine that was remarkably similar to the one Elon Musk proposed back in October – though with one key difference.
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