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Matt Ridley

  • The public isn’t being told the full truth about the climate threat

    If I waved a magic wand and gave the world unlimited clean and cheap energy tomorrow, I expect many climate scientists would be horrified

    Matt Ridley 8 Sep 2023, 6:00am
    A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii
  • The BBC has co-opted bad weather to its alarmist climate crusade

    Yes, heatwaves are getting more intense thanks to global warming, but the alarmism is shameless

    Matt Ridley 19 Jul 2023, 6:00pm
    Taken on July 19, 2023, shows a pharmacy's sign indicating the current outside temperature is 40 degrees celsius, with the dome of Saint Peter Basilica in the background, in Rome amid a heatwave in Italy
  • Sudan’s lab leak threat marks a terrifying new age of biological warfare

    Labs have boomed in recent years, heightening the danger of a major accident – or indeed sabotage

    Matt Ridley 30 Apr 2023, 8:00am
    Smoke seen in Khartoum, Sudan
  • The UK is blinding itself to the truth about Covid’s origins

    British institutions beholden to China or concerned about the effect on science appear uninterested in investigating the lab leak hypothesis

    Matt Ridley 18 Apr 2023, 7:00pm
    SARS-CoV-2 virus particles
  • The World Health Organisation is putting us all in danger

    The failure to speedily investigate Covid’s real origins leave us vulnerable to another pandemic

    Matt Ridley 15 Feb 2023, 6:50pm
    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Ignore the naysayers – Britain can still be a scientific superpower

    Virtually all great breakthroughs have been built on repeated failed experiments. Space launches are no exception

    Matt Ridley 16 Jan 2023, 3:42pm
    Britain's first satellite launch takes off from Cornwall Airport Newquay, in Cornwall
  • China’s Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure

    Sweden’s refusal to impose compulsory shutdowns has now, by contrast, been completely vindicated

    Matt Ridley 28 Dec 2022, 9:30pm
    China Covid patients
  • The sinister truth about bird-killing wind ‘farms’

    The Tory party must have a death wish now that it has fallen back in love with onshore wind turbines

    Matt Ridley 7 Dec 2022, 7:00am
    Golden Eagle
  • Top virologists betrayed science with their Covid lab leak cover-up

    Despite instructing the rest of us to 'follow the science', these scientists were not doing so themselves. It is a scandal.

    Matt Ridley 24 Nov 2022, 6:00pm
    Workers line up to get tested in Wuhan
  • Green zealots are threatening real conservation

    Obsession with climate change is now actively harming the environment

    Matt Ridley 6 Nov 2022, 11:00am
    Electricity pylons
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  • National Trust is being duped by green loons

    Eco charities have allowed themselves to be talked into joining partisan attack on Government policies

    Matt Ridley 12 Oct 2022, 7:00pm
    Hilary McGrady, the head of the National Trust
  • The search for Covid-19’s origins continues to be hindered by fear of offending China

    The Lancet Commission is the latest to highlight how seeking the truth has come second to other considerations

    Matt Ridley 18 Sep 2022, 8:00am
    Virus
  • Farewell James Lovelock, the green icon who turned his back on modern environmentalism

    We have lost a unique and truly independent mind. The father of the Gaia thesis grew to mistrust modish greenery

    Matt Ridley 28 Jul 2022, 7:30pm
    james lovelock
  • Liz Truss is the unconventional Tory radical Britain needs

    The Foreign Secretary has evolved into a bold, fearless reformer who appreciates the need for change

    Matt Ridley 20 Jul 2022, 5:34pm
    Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leaving her London home
  • Eco-extremism has brought Sri Lanka to its knees

    An obsession with organic farming ‘in sync with nature’ triggered an unsustainable but predictable economic crisis

    Matt Ridley 14 Jul 2022, 4:55pm
    Protesters swimming in Sri Lankan President's pool
  • An independent inquiry into Covid’s origins is long overdue

    The premature dismissal of the Wuhan lab leak theory casts a shadow over the scientific community

    Matt Ridley 25 Jun 2022, 6:00pm
    CVD
  • Britain faces blackouts thanks to Vladimir Putin's war on shale

    Fracking was wrongly demonised by an unholy alliance of the Kremlin and Green activists

    Matt Ridley 1 Jun 2022, 6:00am
    
A pump jack and surface water at oil well and fracking site in Shafter. Kern County
  • Feeding the world was made possible by genetic science – we cannot stop now

    The Government must put science at the heart of Britain’s food policies – before it’s too late

    Matt Ridley 22 May 2022, 11:00am
    40209301gmcr_20020311_00030.jpg / Anti-GM Crop Protest 
  • A WHO pandemic pact would leave the world at China’s mercy

    Lessons have still not been learned, so why should we trust the WHO in a future pandemic?

    Matt Ridley 14 May 2022, 3:00pm
    DTAG
  • The hair shirt eco-elite don’t want pain-free fusion power

    The green zealots are far more interested in lecturing others than improving lives and the planet through technology

    Matt Ridley 12 Feb 2022, 5:00pm
    jet
  • The WHO is complicit in China’s Winter Olympics smokescreen

    Will Dr Tedros use the Beijing Games to deliver some home truths to China? Probably not

    Matt Ridley 6 Feb 2022, 11:00am
    TAG
  • I was duped by the Covid lab leak deniers

    That senior scientists saw evidence for theories that they trashed in public has shattered trust in science

    Matt Ridley 12 Jan 2022, 5:48pm
    lab leak, wuhan, china
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