The naive globalisation of the 1990s has become a liability. Britain and its allies need to beef up their defences
But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.
The international community must set out consequences for Beijing’s flagrant breaches of international treaties.
Failing to implement – or even entertain the notion of – change helps no-one, aside from perhaps a handful who use the health service for cheap populism.
In the name of cracking down on ‘disinformation’ and controlling infection, governments are centralising power and silencing critics.
Whereas other countries, such as Israel and Australia, implemented travel bans mid-March, the country is only following now.
The Government is under pressure to tell the public to wear face masks. But if there’s not enough evidence, why?
I have serious concerns about the sector surviving this crisis. We cannot allow the worst to happen and our zoos and aquariums put at risk.
Some regions have already started to ease off lockdown measures. Here are their plans so far:
A common threat, especially in the form of a pathogen, flicks switches in our brains, making us less tolerant of dissent.
This imbalance is driven by the core science budget: the Research Councils (which fund projects) and Quality Related “QR” funding, which universities allocate.
Who are you voting for to run the EU Commission? Have you watched the debates and scrutinised their manifestos? Oh, wait.
Confessions of use in their youth by politicians raises the case for controlled legalisation – at least of ‘soft’ substances, if not yet of hard ones.
His life and works appears to have little influence at the top of the current Conservative Party, and among the wider membership and the British public. But it seems that in those countries where Scruton went behind the Iron Curtain, his work and life is not just remembered, he is still actively saving minds.