Wuhan
Did Covid first emerge at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
The net around the Wuhan Institute of Virology continues to tighten. A letter from Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the…
How China tried to suppress the lab leak investigation
The lead figure in the World Health Organisation’s work on the origins of Covid-19 has givena remarkable interview to Danish…
A volte face over what caused the pandemic needs explaining
Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, writes that ‘the last year has been an eye-opener for me.…
WHO knows? We still can't be sure of Covid's origins
We still can’t be sure where the virus originated
The China election
Bill Clinton, in a speech heralding China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2000, remarked that ‘by joining the WTO,…
Sink or swim: China’s ‘zero Covid’ strategy
Is China’s virus strategy paying off?
How Britain can tame China
Chinese leaders love to use the phrase ‘win-win’, but they actually hope to win twice and leave other nations in…
Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations
Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…
How government can learn from disasters
Soon enough, Congress will hold hearings to investigate the federal response to the Wuhan virus pandemic. It is almost a…
Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?
Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…
Half of Americans want their state to sue China for coronavirus damages
Public opinion is rapidly turning against China as and intelligence agencies have exposed the full extent of the communist state’s…
The fatality rate of our CCP virus overreaction
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. I think it was Sir Charles Dilke…
Sovereignty rules
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Washington, DC At the end of…
French Hill: Congress should conduct ‘full oversight’ of WHO funding
Rep. French Hill is on board with President Trump’s threat to withhold funding from the World Health Organization because of…
The case for reopening the country now
More and more people, I suspect, are padding about muttering lines from Psalm 13: ‘How long, O Lord,…How long must I…
Questioning coronavirus origins is not a conspiracy
The exact origins of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, remain unknown. We know only that it began in the Wuhan province…
How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?
The world as we have known it for the past 40 years has come to a stop. We have a…
The Democrats just made a huge mistake
‘Never let a good crisis go to waste.’ When Rahm Emanuel said that during the economic meltdown of 2008-2009, his…
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
The president delivered an address last night about the Wuhan flu, aka novel coronavirus, aka (if you want to sound…
China’s response to coronavirus shows a one-party state in action
The handling of the coronavirus shows a one-party state in action
The whole of China is in an eerie state of shutdown
Shanghai ‘Do you want me to scan your temperature?’ asks the receptionist, brandishing an infrared thermometer. Arriving at my hotel…
