coronavirus

‘Inessential’ workers have helped keep the country afloat

30 January 2021 9:00 am

A common sight across Britain these past ten months has been those rainbow flags fluttering in urban and village streets:…

My taste of lockdown freedom on the Camino pilgrimage

30 January 2021 9:00 am

A few of the hip young things sitting along the Lisbon quayside turned their heads my way as my walking…

Capital punishment: why wealth taxes don’t work

30 January 2021 9:00 am

Why wealth taxes don’t work

The true cost of school closures – an interview with the children's commissioner

30 January 2021 9:00 am

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen

Australian border closures would work for Britain. Here’s why

30 January 2021 9:00 am

Closing the borders worked Down Under. Could it work here?

Vaccine wars: the global battle for a precious resource

30 January 2021 9:00 am

The vaccine wars are turning nasty

The horrifying toll of lockdown on the poor and mentally ill

30 January 2021 9:00 am

I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…

Quarantine and the freedom paradox

30 January 2021 9:00 am

Who would have thought, this time last year, that the British government would be planning to detain British nationals at…

The EU’s vaccine catastrophe is a crisis of its own making

25 January 2021 2:19 am

As news emerges that both Pfizer and AstraZeneca are cutting supplies of their Covid-19 vaccines to the EU by up…

The truth about the vaccine ‘postcode lottery’

23 January 2021 9:00 am

‘Postcode lottery!’ people scream when one area feels less well treated than another in a public service — in this…

What makes us think they’ll release lockdown after vaccines?

23 January 2021 9:00 am

Has the coup happened yet? You have the advantage over me. It was supposed to have taken place on Sunday.…

Portrait of the week: Vaccination, inauguration and a food box denunciation

23 January 2021 9:00 am

Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…

Could the Australian approach to Covid work in Britain?

23 January 2021 9:00 am

The government’s most important economic policy is its vaccination programme. The speed at which people are immunised will determine when…

How cults crumble

23 January 2021 9:00 am

There’s something creepy about the way we call Donald Trump fans a cult, then watch them hungrily, hoping they’ll do…

How effective has the Covid vaccine been in Israel?

21 January 2021 10:45 pm

The world’s eyes are on Israel at the moment, as the country continues its phenomenally fast roll-out of the Pfizer…

How Netanyahu exploits Israel’s vaccine success

16 January 2021 9:00 am

The vaccine has arrived at just the right time for the Israeli PM

Portrait of the week: Queen gets vaccinated, Trump supporters riot and gorillas catch Covid

16 January 2021 9:00 am

Home The government, in the face of overwhelming numbers of people with Covid-19 being admitted to hospital, told everyone to…

What have we learnt from this pandemic?

9 January 2021 9:00 am

So great have been the government’s failures over Covid that it would be easy to forget to give credit where…

The comment that baffled Boris

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Real men are not supposed to confess to feeling fear. But I am frightened, second time round, about the plague.…

Footballers have made a pig’s ear of Covid rules

9 January 2021 9:00 am

It’s the Portuguese piglet you feel really sorry for. The diminutive (ready cooked) porker — a festive delicacy all over…

Covid, like war, brings less obvious shocks

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Domenica Lawson, daughter of Rosa and Dominic, the former editor of this paper, has Down’s syndrome. She is classified as…

Portrait of the week: New year, new lockdown

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced harsher coronavirus restrictions in England, resembling those last March, except that bubbles continued.…

A race against time: can the vaccine outpace the virus?

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Can the vaccine outpace the virus?

Why 2021 could be the year of economic Armageddon

2 January 2021 2:43 am

The British economy is wrapped in bandages – we won’t know whether the wound has scabbed or turned septic until…