vaccines
The EU’s vaccine grab breaches the rule of law
The EU is discussing confiscating and requisitioning private property. It is surprisingly brazen about this. The bloc is proposing both…
Boris tries to avoid a vaccine war
After France’s Europe Minister became the latest politician to threaten a vaccine export ban on the UK, Boris Johnson used today’s…
Is the UK about to be forced into a vaccine war?
Is the UK about to be forced into a vaccine war? That’s the concern in Westminster after Brussels upped the…
Boris Johnson attempts to calm vaccine concerns
The message from Boris Johnson’s press conference this evening was one of reassurance. Following the decision by several EU member…
The EU's jab snatching ruse is legally absurd
For some months now, increasingly disturbing statements on the law or legal threats have emanated from the EU. Some of…
Is Matt Hancock trying to spin a vaccine supply crisis?
Matt Hancock was tremendously smiley when he led Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing. In between beaming, he managed to tell us…
Why isn't Britain adopting the Danish roadmap?
Denmark’s greatest philosopher, Søren Kirkegaard, experienced only one epidemic in his lifetime, the cholera outbreak of 1853, which occurred after…
Support for Merkel's party is crumbling
On Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) suffered a historic election defeat in their former heartlands of…
UK slams EU over 'completely false' vaccine claims
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has blasted claims by a senior Eurocrat that the UK is hampering the bloc’s vaccine rollout,…
How worried should we be about a third wave?
At the beginning of the year, Boris Johnson and his advisers were at pains to tell us that by spring…
Boris hints at a 'no jab, no job' policy
The most striking moment of Monday night’s press conference was Chris Whitty’s declaration that it was the ‘professional responsibility’ on…
Vaccination is pushing England's population immunity to new heights
England’s population immunity to Coronavirus now stands at almost 39 per cent — a rise of 25 per cent since…
Can we boost immunity with the vaccines we have now?
What to make of the news this morning that Oxford University is to ask for volunteers to take part in…
Concern grows over South African variant
Although there’s plenty of positive vaccine news to go around, the latest government press conference offered a sobering reminder of…
One year after Brexit, Britain is reaping the benefits of independence
A year ago today Britain awoke to a rather muted celebration – which seemed to consist largely of a bubble…
Ursula von der Leyen has always left a trail of disaster
The German Army had to join a NATO exercise with broomsticks because they didn’t have any rifles. It’s special forces…
The EU's vaccine opportunism will not be forgotten
At first, it sounded like empty rage. The European Union had spent all week making wild statements about controlling vaccine…
Could this drug offer immediate protection from Covid-19?
When Donald Trump returned to the White House after a brief spell in hospital with Covid-19 last October he made…
Trump was right about the vaccine release
Donald Trump said during the second and final presidential debate on October 22 that he was optimistic a vaccine would…
Finally America is realizing that Andrew Cuomo is a putz
In a sane world, Andrew Cuomo would be America’s least popular politician, a welcome target for a primary campaign or…
The problem with fast-tracking vaccines
You have to admit it, Operation Warp Speed is a good moniker. It’s the name for the American interagency program,…
