coronavirus
Portrait of the week: Covid pills, Chauvin’s conviction and a red card for the Super League
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced the hunt was on for two effective pills to treat Covid, to be…
Why I don’t regret leaving the BBC
I have just had my second jab and it poses a dilemma. As an assiduous Covid rule-taker, I have been…
Who gave Abba ‘nul points’ in 1974?
Falling from grace Six Premier League football clubs had announced their intention to join a European Super League, from which…
Portrait of the week: Duke of Edinburgh dies, Covid retreats and questions for Cameron
Home The Duke of Edinburgh, who was married to the Queen for 73 years, died at Windsor Castle, aged 99.…
My painstaking preparations for Prince Philip’s funeral
The files arrived marked ‘STRICT EMBARGO’ and ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ and ‘FORTH BRIDGE REVISED’ and stamped with various crests and insignia. My…
Let’s show vaccine passports for football fans the red card
As I’ve written before, the thing I’ve missed the most in the past 12 months is going to see QPR…
Britain is in danger of repeating its post-war mistakes
What we can learn from Britain’s rationing mistakes
The truth about Russia’s hidden Covid deaths
Putin’s hidden Covid deaths
Can Boris beat the vaccine passport rebels?
No prime minister wants to be dependent on the opposition to get the government’s business through the House of Commons.…
The competitive cult of cosiness
Can we escape the cult of cosiness?
Portrait of the week: Vaccine passports, Northern Ireland riots and a cocaine-smuggling kayaker
Home The government sketched a scheme for a coronavirus passport, or ‘Covid status certification’, to be tried out at the…
Britain’s vaccine success was supposed to lead to freedom. What happened?
Britain’s vaccine success was supposed to lead to freedom. What happened?
How likely is a false positive from a Covid test?
Positive thinking The government wants us to test ourselves for Covid-19 twice a week, using lateral flow kits which will…
In Israel, vaccine passports are already redundant
Vaccine passports are already redundant in Israel
The dilemma of vaccination
We have a government which is basically libertarian in its instincts, despite its current affection for telling us what we…
Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it's showing
The biggest question facing Boris Johnson at this evening’s press conference was so-called vaccine passports. Plans for his scheme were…
Why we should apply common sense to Covid regulations
Footage of a police officer interrupting the Good Friday liturgy to disperse and send home the congregation of a Polish…
Britain’s travel ban brings risks of its own
It’s time to get Britain travelling again
The new opposition: an interview with Ed Davey
Ed Davey on why the Lib Dems are the only party voting against lockdown laws
How should we tackle vaccine hesitancy?
The need to tackle vaccine hesitancy
Want to see your friends? Call it a protest
I wonder exactly when we agreed that it is more of a priority to gather with strangers than to meet…
Portrait of the week: Alex Salmond’s party, China’s H&M ban and protests in Bristol and Batley
Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…
Has the vaccine cured my long Covid?
Has the vaccine cured my long Covid?
WHO knows? We still can't be sure of Covid's origins
We still can’t be sure where the virus originated
The fightback: it’s time for the West to take on China
Western democracies must unite against China’s economic bullying
