Published by UnHerd (9th January, 2025) The World Health Organisation ended 2024 by reminding us that it is five years since it discovered a virus was sweeping through […]
Covid19
The real Covid conspiracy
Published by UnHerd (11th March, 2023) The departing director of the world’s second biggest philanthropic donor and one of the most influential funders of scientific research was doing […]
Covid19
The Covid origins debate gets even murkier
Published by The i paper (19th December, 2022) It is three years since a strange new disease began felling people in a city in central China, sparking the pandemic […]
China / Taiwan / World
Give Taiwan the same support as Ukraine
Published by The i paper (29th August, 2022) Three months into the pandemic, a senior official at the World Health Organisation was asked on video link by a […]
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 […]
Covid19
The Covid origins debate has been stifled
Published by The i paper (18th October, 2021) Perhaps the silliest comment during the demeaning Brexit debate was Michael Gove saying that people have “had enough of experts”, […]
China / Covid19 / World
China pushed to open up labs as Covid leak theory gains support
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) China is coming under pressure to share data and open up its virus research centres in Wuhan to proper […]
China / Covid19 / World
China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry
Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with residents of the medieval Wiltshire town starting to […]
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 […]
Covid19 / Feature / Technology
Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his […]
China / Covid19 / World
Is ‘Patient Su’ Covid’s Patient Zero?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]
Covid19
International experts ratchet pressure on China to probe the Covid lab leak theory
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th May, 2021) Leading infectious disease experts have condemned the World Health Organisation for its failure to properly investigate whether Covid-19 leaked from […]