Survival of the hottest: evolution’s fun side has been long overlooked
The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.…
The North Sea ship collision is likely to be cock-up rather than conspiracy
This week’s ship collision off the Humber could have been much worse. Just one person is unaccounted for and one other needed…
Will ‘The Seeker’ find the truth about the Covid lab leaks?
At the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, where ghosts of British nabobs look out over the racecourse, my neuroscientist wife spoke…
Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?
Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed…
How I fell foul of YouTube’s fact-checkers
The day after Mark Zuckerberg said fact-checkers ‘have destroyed more trust than they have created’ I experienced why he has…
Wuhan wager: the $400 ‘bio bet’ that predicted the pandemic
At the end of this month, one of the world’s most renowned scientists will send $400 to a charity to…
How ‘experts’ led to the rise of RFK Jr.
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr — who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…
The ‘experts’ who enabled RFK Jr’s rise
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr – who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…
Dam shame: what really caused Valencia’s floods?
Who is to blame for the devastating floods that hit Valencia on 29 October? The mob that surrounded King Felipe…
How Ed Miliband plans to conjure electricity out of nothing
Electricity is magical stuff. From a couple of tiny holes in a wall comes an apparently endless supply of invisible,…
Is another pandemic really inevitable?
Future pandemics as bad as Covid are ‘a certainty’, says Sir Chris Whitty. He is right in one sense. So…
Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins
At the age of 66 I feel like a first-time voter. As a member of the House of Lords, I…
Any protest which threatens the Cenotaph is a travesty
Every year I lay a wreath a week early, because Blyth, my nearest town, was a submarine port. Submariners were…
The new age of gullibility
The new age of gullibility
Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?
Greenpeace’s strange silence about new dangers to whales
Science fiction: the crisis in research
The crisis in research
Why I’m sceptical about a superconductor breakthrough
A team of South Korean scientists has pre-printed a paper asserting that they have achieved superconductivity at room temperature and…
Wuhan clan: we finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid
We finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid
My unexpected lunch with Nigel Lawson
When I joined the House of Lords in 2013 I soon realised that, despite its poor reputation, the place contained…
