Victor Hill

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…

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 -…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?…

The invisible enemy advances

For now Covid-19 is winning against the human race as cases and fatalities increase exponentially. We shall beat it –…