Dr Tilak Doshi takes a closer look at ARIA, Britain's secretive £800 million quango that would dim the sun to 'save us' from global warming. Aside from the nutty Net Zero-ism, do governments ever pick winners? he asks.
The quango behind the mad and dangerous plan to dim the Sun has a budget of £800 million of taxpayer money to blow on speculative projects – and a CEO on £450k. What an extraordinary misuse of public money.
It is a sad reflection on our age that the line 'lies, damned lies and statistics' was forgotten, says Prof James Alexander. Good political sense can never be grounded on statistics, but only on history and criticism.
Politics professor James Alexander has finally got round to reading part one of Baroness Hallett's report. It's a dull pudding, he says, but does contain a few raisins.
Dominic Cummings recently held forth on the "deep state" at a meeting in Oxford. Politics professor James Alexander thinks he is half-right – which is more right than nearly all his critics.
Graham Brady, the former leading Tory backbencher, has revealed that Boris Johnson asked him "How many people would you let die?" when he said Lord Sumption was right to challenge lockdown.
In the UK, as in the US, the Covid pandemic response switched abruptly in mid-March 2020 from a standard public health plan to a totalitarian lockdown-until-vaccine plan. Debbie Lerman digs into why this happened.
If politicians want to solve the U.K.'s endemic worklessness they must talk to people in supermarket cafés, for in those humble haunts of the lowly leisured all will be revealed, says Joanna Gray.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Rishi Sunak's secret meeting with Dominic Cummings, Kemi Badenoch topping polls to be the next Tory leader and Sadiq Khan's New Year's Eve narcissism.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère says the SAGE scientists didn't have a clue about whether to lock down or not in March 2020, any more than historians know much about what went on in the past.
