Toby Young, Author at Brownstone Institute

Fall of a Scottish Tyrant

Toby Young February 17, 2023 Policy 4 minute read

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It’s clear now that Scotland’s draconian non-pharmaceutical interventions designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 were a catastrophic failure, imposing a massive cost without any benefits. And those costs continue to accumulate, with drug and alcohol addiction soaring, educational attainment plummeting, hospitals bursting at the seams, and the economy in the doldrums. Sturgeon’s hopeless mismanagement of the pandemic, always trying to out-Ceaușescu Boris, has made everything worse.

Pascal Made Slaves of Us All

Toby Young January 12, 2023 Philosophy 21 minute read

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We need something more than rational scepticism. We need a new ideology – something like a religious movement of our own – one that’s more optimistic about the future of humanity, that places a little more faith in the ability of people to do their own risk assessments and voluntarily adjust their behaviour if necessary.

The Bad Science of Choral Singing Bans Due to Covid

Toby Young November 23, 2022 Policy, Public Health 3 minute read

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Readers will recall the ban on singing of all kinds during the lockdowns and even after they were lifted because singing was supposedly a ‘transmission risk’. Turns out, this typical piece of Covid hysteria was based on a flawed study.

No, House of Commons Committee, the UK Did Not Lock Down Too Late. It Should Never Have Locked Down At All.

Toby Young October 12, 2021 Policy, Public Health 14 minute read

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This is a pretty feeble report that seems to have been written with an eye on getting Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark – the chairs of the two select committees involved – on the BBC news rather than making a serious contribution to understanding what the Government got right and what it got wrong over the past 18 months.