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‘It’s a war,’ said President Trump, when describing the fight against the Coronavirus, labelling himself a ‘war-time President’. Sure enough, with a [...]

In health economics, a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a generic measure of the burden of disease, capturing both the quality and the quantity of life [...]

Coronavirus has left economies across the world in suspended animation as governments attempt to contain the spread of the virus by pursuing draconian [...]

The UK is in lockdown. In spite of his initial instinct to try to preserve civil liberties, Boris Johnson surrendered to the pressure and turned his country [...]

This week, US President Donald Trump seemingly caved in to pressure from failing airplane manufacturer Boeing Inc. and others, who have been lobbying for [...]

Last week, in a landmark British legal case brought by environmental charities, Friends of the Earth and Plan B Earth, a judge ruled that the planned [...]

On 1st July 2019 the US economic expansion, which started in the wake of the global financial crisis in June 2009, entered its 121st month and thereby [...]

It was a bright Sunday morning in March 2014 when the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in Harbel, a town of some 80,000 people in the West African country of [...]

Recently the actor Simon Pegg, star of Shaun of the Dead, was one of 120 wealthy signatories from around the world to a letter calling for higher taxes on the [...]

By Bradley Thomas Conservatives who argue to “limit” the welfare state are routinely painted as cold-hearted by welfare state supporters. With good [...]