The Bats Behind the Pandemic

Matt Ridley

From Ebola to Covid-19, many of the deadliest viruses to emerge in recent years have the same animal source. My article for The Wall Street Journal: RaTG13 is the name, rank and serial number of an individual horseshoe bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis, or rather of a sample of its feces collected in 2013 […]

Britain’s coronavirus testing is bogged down in bureaucracy

Matt Ridley

My article for The Spectator: Despite what Corbynites like to claim, Britain’s National Health Service has always relied heavily on the private sector for lots of things. The food it serves to patients is not grown on state-owned farms, nor are the pills it prescribes manufactured in state-owned factories. Yet when it comes to diagnostic […]

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Watch: Coronavirus and Lessons on Innovation with Yaron Brook

Matt Ridley

I spent an hour talking to philosophy expert, business expert and Ayn Rand Institute Chairman Yaron Brook about my upcoming book, and the painful yet important lessons that the epidemic is teaching us about innovation. Please check it out, and consider sharing and subscribing: To stay updated, follow me on Twitter @mattwridley and Facebook, or subscribe to my new […]

The curious age discrimination of coronavirus

Matt Ridley

Why does it affect the generations differently? My article for Spectator: The generational effect of the corona-virus is cunning and baffling. By often being so mild in the young and healthy it turns people into heedless carriers. By often being so lethal in the old and sick, it makes carriers into potential executioners of friends […]

Delay to UK Publication of How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley

Now Coming 25th June Because of the global coronavirus crisis, I have agreed with my publisher’s request to delay publication of the UK edition of my new book How Innovation Works from 14 May till 25 June. The US edition will be published on 19 May as planned, because printing has already begun. The book […]

A vaccine for coronavirus isn’t going to ride rapidly to our rescue

Matt Ridley

My article for the Telegraph: In 1934, in their spare time, two American biologists, Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering, developed a vaccine for whooping cough, then the biggest killer of children in the United States. Within four years their vaccine was being used throughout Michigan and within six it was being used nationwide. Whooping cough […]

We are about to find out how robust civilisation is

Matt Ridley

The hardships ahead will be like nothing we have ever known My article for Spectator: On Sunday, lonely as a cloud, I wandered across a windswept moor in County Durham and passed a solitary sandstone rock with a small, round hollow in the top, an old penny glued to the base of the hollow. It […]

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