Plague Year Journal V: Science & Sensibility
The Covid-19 pandemic will be the best documented and most analysed in history. But the long-term impact will be in…
5 years ago
Victor Hill
Plague Year IV: Why the British numbers are so bad
Even Tory loyalists admit that the UK mortality figures are dire and the economic consequences of lockdown are grave -…
5 years ago
Journal of the Plague Year III – Of models and black boxes
The Imperial College pandemic model was never peer-reviewed – until now. There are parallels between epidemiological models and catastrophic hedge…
5 years ago
A Journal of the Plague Year – Part the Second – The Shadow of Big Brother
Test, track and trace – this is the new formula to contain this and future pandemics. Victor Hill makes another…
5 years ago
Is this the end of the ‘golden age’ of air travel?
Victor Hill investigates which airlines will survive in the post-pandemic world? Is this the end of the 'golden age' of…
5 years ago
A Journal of the Plague Year – Part the First
Daniel Defoe (of Robinson Crusoe fame) published his Journal of the Plague Year in 1722 - an eye-witness account of…
5 years ago
The lockdowns are working – but we shall never get back to “normal”
Every week of pandemic that goes by we are learning new lessons – but some nations are learning faster than…
5 years ago
Optimist, realist or pessimist – will the coming recession be V, U or L-shaped?
The lockdowns across the world have induced an imminent global recession – the worst in 300 years according to one…
5 years ago
The march of the anti-virals
Here comes the cavalry – or maybe not. Could anti-viral drugs cure Covid-19 and stem the tide of the pandemic?…
5 years ago
The invisible enemy advances
For now Covid-19 is winning against the human race as cases and fatalities increase exponentially. We shall beat it –…
5 years ago