Are readers of TNC aware of a daily newsletter called Global Health NOW which is published by the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University? Probably not, as if you have an ounce of sense then the words ‘public health’, ‘Bloomberg’ and ‘Johns Hopkins’ in the same sentence are probably enough to […]
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Anglicans across the world must be so relieved that the newly confirmed – although not yet installed – Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Doollaly*, is going to focus on misogyny (does anyone else have problems spelling that word?) in her new role as head of the Anglican community worldwide. The country is facing a spiritual crisis,
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Global warming is really taking its toll up here in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It’s freezing cold again and makes the actual man cave bearable only for the shortest of visits with the Dyson heater at full blast and as high a temperature as it is capable of. One of these days Mrs Watson
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A leading proponent of face masks as a means of countering the spread of respiratory infections appears to have changed her mind. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford – described as the “high priestess” of the face mask movement, who even appeared on her X feed wearing two face masks during the COVID-19 years –
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It’s been a while since I have gazed out at the world from the man cave, mid-December in fact. It has not stopped me writing, but a couple of ‘Silly Season’ columns were the best I could do. Now that we have cut steps across the frozen waste that is our garden to the man
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One’s nose was to the grindstone last week catching up on such a terrific backlog of work that, by the end of the week, the season of goodwill had faded into the mists of time. Two days were spent in Hatfield. Most of the time was spent driving there. But I spent a day with
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We’ve barely had time to recover from our Christmas hangovers or to start breaking our New Year resolutions, and the silly season has started. Less than a week into 2026 and our lords, masters, foreign countries and corporations have already given us a taste of what is to come for the rest of the year.
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I was sceptical about COVID-19 from the start. I was in Wuhan when it started (something I only realised in retrospect) and one year into the ‘pandemic’ not a single colleague or friend there had contracted it. I also knew that people were not dropping dead in the streets. I was not in denial about
They tried to terrify us with Covid-19 and, sad to report, it largely worked. Most of the population cowered under the cosh of the public health experts, stayed indoors, socially distanced, wore masks and got vaccinated. Some people remain convinced that Covid-19 was an existential threat and that, had it not been for the one-way
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You may already be aware of the content of the King’s Speech on Christmas Day. I am not as I make it a point not to be preached to by entitled, ignorant and condescending scroungers (and I’m a monarchist). But apparently, the speech that was delivered was not what King Charles (peace be upon him)
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