A year ago, the IEA published my paper Viral Myths – Why we risk learning the wrong lessons from the … Continue reading “Britain’s pandemic response revisited: has “Plague Island” redeemed itself?”

As a history of the British economy since 2008, The Decade the Rich Won (BBC2/iplayer) has a number of flaws. … Continue reading “Review: “The Decade the Rich Won””

It has taken me a while to appreciate just how singularly ridiculous the Australian response to the Covid pandemic has … Continue reading “Dealing with Covid-19 in Australia”

Since the dawn of anti-capitalism, the free-market system’s opponents have been waiting for the great crisis that will bring about … Continue reading “Corona crisis – have hopes for the end of capitalism been dashed?”

Working at home is something many of us have got used to – maybe too used to – over the … Continue reading “Is the ‘Zoomshock’ here to stay?”

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns reduced global CO2 emissions by 7 percent last year. Some environmentalists, such as … Continue reading “COVID vs the environment: the Kuznets Curve in action?”

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has published a “rebuttal” of my IEA paper “Viral Myths: Why we risk learning the … Continue reading “Viral Myths: my response to the British Medical Journal”

There was a moment in Gogglebox a few weeks ago which, as so often, captured the mood of the nation. Watching Boris … Continue reading “The case for moving the lockdown roadmap forward”

This week, the Chancellor will deliver arguably the most consequential Budget for many years. Despite the fact the UK has … Continue reading “20 taxes the government could scrap to boost the economy”