

We are now a year on from the first central banks shifting into tightening mode and raising policy rates to bring inflation back under control. This central bank tightening trend broadened and accelerated in spring 2022 in response to the exogenous shock to commodity...
The inflation endgame

Born unequal: pondering the natural lottery
Originally published September 2021. Building a commitment to egalitarianism on our genetic uniformity is building a house on sand.– Paige Harden Paige Harden is a University of Texas-Austin behavioral geneticist who does not deny that inborn determinants of...
Born unequal: pondering the natural lottery

‘A reappraisal is long overdue’
Mainstream scientists, doctors, parents speak out about harms of Covid-19 vaccines. Just one day after she got a Covid-19 booster shot, Regan Lewis, a 20-year-old nursing student at Colby Community College in Colby, Kansas, had a heart attack. Her mom, Connie...
‘A reappraisal is long overdue’

Why Meta’s share price collapse is good news for the future of social media
Facebook may not be the original social media platform, but it has stood the test of time – until recently. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its value plummet by around $80bn (£69bn) in just one day at the end of October,...
Why Meta’s share price collapse is good news for the future of social media

To infinity and beyond…
Originally published 16 March 2021. Being a child in the 1960s was Utterly Brilliant. It was all so exciting – because we all knew we were going to space. The theme music from “Apollo” still resonates. Late at night peering at the Moon, and my father waking me up to...
To infinity and beyond…