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Are We Lucky?
Further thoughts on the Hallett inquiry's second report.
Dec 13, 2025 • Max Lacour
Was Lockdown 'Inevitable'?
Errr, no.
Nov 27, 2025 • Max Lacour
Case isolation and Contagionism
Yet another example of (scientific) vibes-based policy.
Nov 13, 2025 • Max Lacour
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Do We Hate Kids?
Mar 22, 2022 • Max Lacour
The COVID vaccine debate continues to miss the point...
Aug 11, 2025 • Max Lacour
CUCKED by the State!
Oct 2, 2023 • Max Lacour
Fear and (Antisemitic) Loathing in the UK.
Nov 4, 2023 • Max Lacour
What could possibly explain the mysterious spike in alcohol-specific deaths? 🧐🤔
Apr 27, 2024 • Max Lacour
Jeremy Clarkson and the 'Wilding' Paradox
Jun 9, 2025 • Max Lacour
The Influenza: Precautions Against The Epidemic
Appendix for 'Case-isolation and Contagionism.'
Nov 12, 2025 • Max Lacour
Making Sense of Public Health.
‘Public health’? ‘Public’ ‘health’? A mysterious third thing?
Oct 13, 2025 • Max Lacour
Planning after (High) Modernity
A sort-of-review of Tom Campbell's 'The Planner' 👍
Sep 10, 2025 • Max Lacour
'What Is To Be Done?', yet again
A review of Philip Cunliffe's 'The National Interest: Politics After Globalisation'
Aug 20, 2025 • Max Lacour
The COVID vaccine debate continues to miss the point...
My latest for UnHerd.
Aug 11, 2025 • Max Lacour
Jeremy Clarkson and the 'Wilding' Paradox
Well, quasi-paradox.
Jun 9, 2025 • Max Lacour
The Pandemic’s Most Inconsequential Man.
My latest for UnHerd 👍
Apr 26, 2025 • Max Lacour
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👉 Thinking aloud about the sociology of science (in politics) in the wake of COVID-19. 👉 Also, occasional digressions and links. 👉 More a way of keeping bits and bobs in one place than anything else.
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