The behavioural changes I’ve seen are nothing to do with worry about getting sick but worry about being told to isolate at home for a sniffle. And that’s a direct consequence of government diktat. (View Post)

There is a small cost to achieve strategic resilience that the West hasn’t been willing to pay for decades, due to the transactional nature of its politics. It’s highly disturbing to me. I would make… (View Post)

A worthless comment from you if I may say so. He was right about what the welded doors in Wuhan meant. He was right in broad strokes about what that would mean for our lives and the markets. He was a… (View Post)

We were getting a lockdown until the rush to one got squashed in Cabinet. The LotO was backing it full tilt, so were SAGE and the CMO. Downing St were briefing there would be a same day presser to an… (View Post)

I once did a business trip to Oulu. Or rather a village in the middle of a pine forest 100km from it. Had Chinese black bean rain deer, which was unexpected. (View Post)