The Covid Inquiry is a shameless cover-up
Matt Ridley
Rishi Sunak will be the latest politician to appear at this show trial run by the Blob to exculpate the Blob On Monday, Rishi Sunak will appear at the Covid Inquiry. It barely matters what he says because it is as predictable as sunrise that he will be pilloried for the mistakes of others, that being […]
China covered up the origins of Covid. It’s time the Inquiry asked why
Matt Ridley
Beijing’s lies denied the world a chance to stop the spread, costing millions of lives. We deserve to know the truth. Michael Gove has told the covid inquiry that “a significant body of judgement… believes that the virus itself was man-made”. He was immediately slapped down by the lead counsel to the Inquiry, Hugo Keith KC, who […]
Electricity from wind isn’t cheap and it never will be
Matt Ridley
Politicians should stop endorsing an energy source that isn’t particularly clean or secure, and won’t bring down prices. The MPs who have forced Rishi Sunak into a U-turn on onshore wind power love to repeat the favourite slogan of the wind industry: “wind is cheap”. “Cheap, clean, secure,” says Sir Alok Sharma. “Cheap,” cheeps Ed Miliband. […]
The public isn’t being told the full truth about the climate threat
Matt Ridley
If I waved a magic wand and gave the world unlimited clean and cheap energy tomorrow, I expect many climate scientists would be horrified Patrick Brown, the co-director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute in California, has blown the whistle on an open secret about climate science: it’s biased in favour of alarmism. He published […]
The BBC has co-opted bad weather to its alarmist climate crusade
Matt Ridley
Yes, heatwaves are getting more intense thanks to global warming, but the alarmism is shameless On Tuesday this week in Northumberland, the mercury never even reached 16C. I gather from one or two gentle hints on the BBC – sorry, apocalyptic rants – that it’s a bit hotter in the Mediterranean. My point is […]
Sudan’s lab leak threat marks a terrifying new age of biological warfare
Matt Ridley
Labs have boomed in recent years, heightening the danger of a major accident – or indeed sabotage Last week a horrifying report emerged from Khartoum, where poor Sudanese civilians are being terrorised by internal conflict. Fighters had seized a biological laboratory that houses samples of measles and cholera. It was said that power cuts may threaten the safe […]
The UK is blinding itself to the truth about COVID’s origins
Matt Ridley
As a US Senate committee’s full, 300-page report on the origin of covid now makes clear, a whole string of clues now points towards a laboratory accident as the probable cause of the covid pandemic. For example, there is: evidence of a biosafety crisis at the lab in the autumn of 2019; the Chinese […]
The UK is blinding itself to the truth about Covid’s origins
Matt Ridley
British institutions beholden to China or concerned about the effect on science appear uninterested in investigating the lab leak hypothesis As a US Senate committee’s full, 300-page report on the origin of covid now makes clear, a whole string of clues now points towards a laboratory accident as the probable cause of the […]
The sinister truth about bird-killing wind ‘farms’
Matt Ridley
The Tory party must have a death wish now that it has fallen back in love with onshore wind turbines The Tory party’s move to fall back in love with wind energy, despite its manifest disadvantages of cost, unreliability and inefficient use of land, is a death wish. They will soon rediscover just how […]
The search for Covid-19’s origins continues to be hindered by fear of offending China
Matt Ridley
The Lancet Commission is the latest to highlight how seeking the truth has come second to other considerations The Lancet Commission into “lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic”, written by 40 scientists and public health experts, and chaired by the economist Jeffrey Sachs, has concluded that “the origin of the virus remains […]
