Paul Wood, Author at The Conservative Woman

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The convincing case against lockdowns

Paul Wood - May 5, 2020

IN THE confusion and alarms of the coronavirus panic some things start to emerge. Common sense would seem to say that, whether lockdowns are necessary...

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It’s panic that’s killing so many Italians

Paul Wood - April 5, 2020

IN February 1957, a new influenza virus emerged in East Asia which doctors named A (H2N2) and which was known to the world, in the days before...

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Death-rate data is a meaningless muddle

Paul Wood - April 1, 2020

TO use the most popular opening conversational gambit these days, I am no epidemiologist. I just try to make sense of the news. I do...

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We’re flying blind

Paul Wood - March 30, 2020

EVERY country has the government it deserves, according to Joseph de Maistre, and perhaps every rich country has the coronavirus outbreak it deserves. The Japanese...

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Trump, a bulwark against the totalitarian tide

Paul Wood - March 2, 2020

BERNIE Sanders will be the Democrat nominee for US President and will lose. The Nevada caucus has given him a momentum that I imagine cannot...

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Has the West lost the will to reproduce?

Paul Wood - February 28, 2020

THE Robert Schuman Foundation is a think tank set up in 1991 by EEC panjandrums which came up with a useful report on demographics in 2017. 'Europe...

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The death of my party, by a Labour peer

Paul Wood - January 12, 2020

LORD Glasman, a Labour peer and the founder of Blue Labour, is a most interesting thinker. I am fascinated by the essay he produced...

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Migrants and the French revolution

Paul Wood - December 5, 2019

I SPENT last weekend in Paris to celebrate my birthday with some friends. I saw the Leonardo exhibition, walked around St Germain in the...

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Your guide to Ukrainegate

Paul Wood - November 26, 2019

I DON'T imagine you are following the attempt to impeach Donald Trump too closely, gentle non-American reader. There seems little point, as the US Senate will not...

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Seditious thoughts of the man who would be PM

Paul Wood - November 25, 2019

JEREMY Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, who will very possibly be Prime Minister before Christmas, marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and...

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BoJo v Jezza – put it down as a bore draw

Paul Wood - November 21, 2019

TUESDAYS night’s television debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was a waste of time. It was not really a debate at all and...

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Lament of the forgotten warriors

Paul Wood - November 12, 2019

YESTERDAY was the 101st anniversary of the end of the First World War. When it began in 1914, Western civilisation seemed unassailable, though its...

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May, the great non-communicator

Paul Wood - November 4, 2019

I FOUND Sir Anthony Seldon's book on Mr Blair unreadably dry, like chewing straw, but his new one on Mrs May sounded compelling, in...

Brexit Watch

The most important election since 1945 – and the most unpredictable

Paul Wood - November 3, 2019

I SAW why some Brexiteers will vote for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party when I read in the Daily Mail that Boris Johnson is not...

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Whatever the opinion polls say, this election is a leap into the unknown

Paul Wood - November 1, 2019

IT used to be the case that British general election campaigns had very little effect on the result. The first time that was not...

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Poles apart … the war of city versus State

Paul Wood - October 23, 2019

I GAVE up reading Roger Boyes many years ago. His banal analyses of Middle Eastern politics sounded like they were dictated by MI6 or...

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