vaccine
Portrait of the week: A Covid Budget, a Cotswold meteor and Angelina Jolie sells Churchill’s painting
Home First-dose coronavirus vaccinations totalled more than 20 million. A study suggested that in the over-eighties, a single dose of…
The moral debate over Covid jabs for children
The ethics of Covid jabs for children
The word ‘like’ is in crisis
‘Blame Kingsley Amis,’ said my husband, with the carelessness of one defying a man out of earshot. The blame, such…
The EU's ugly vaccine nationalism
We have to rid the world of vaccine nationalism. No one is protected until we are all protected. And we…
Oxford’s remarkable vaccine success
It is worth taking a moment to stand back and applaud Sarah Gilbert and the Oxford vaccine team’s achievement. The…
EU leaders’ vaccine sniping backfires
The eyes of the world have been on Britain’s vaccination programme in recent months, as the UK government embarked on…
What will life look like after 21 June?
‘Alas’ is a word used many times by Boris Johnson during the pandemic. It is how he prefaces announcements that…
English beef: the sinister side to France’s mistrust of Britain
The sinister side to France’s mistrust of the ‘Anglo-Saxons’
Why is Tony Blair driving government policy?
Why is the former PM driving Covid policy?
Which Covid vaccine is really the most effective?
State of the art Graffiti on Edvard Munch’s first version of ‘The Scream’ was revealed to be the work of…
Why do old people have fewer antibodies after the vaccine?
The UK policy of delaying second doses of the Pfizer vaccine has been criticised by some as risky, with Pfizer…
Face masks in schools: a note on the evidence
Secondary-school children returning to school from 8 March will be required to wear masks in classrooms, at least for several…
Germany is regretting its criticism of the Oxford Covid jab
Germany’s fridges are filled with Oxford jabs. But there’s a problem: 80 per cent of the 735,000 doses delivered to Germany…
We could all pay the price for the EU's foolish vaccine nationalism
I’m a card carrying, Europe-loving, wishy-washy centre-left liberal. It therefore pains me to point this out: the EU in general,…
Vaccination offers us a road out of lockdown. Let’s take it
As an epidemiologist and doctor who volunteered to return to the frontline in both waves, I have seen first hand…
Where will vaccine passports take us?
Desperate to find someone to commemorate with a statue for having done great things, but who isn’t a white male,…
Power jab: the rise of vaccine diplomacy
An international power tussle over vaccines is under way
The need for speed: can we outpace Covid?
Can we outpace Covid?
Are Germans losing faith in the European project?
Germans are increasingly losing faith in the European Union due to its bungled handling of the vaccine roll-out. Germany and…
Covid cases have collapsed
Last month, Imperial College’s React study claimed that new cases of Covid were static or even rising slightly. This contradicted…
Why Eastern Europe is looking to Russia and China for vaccines
With Central and Eastern European countries still gripped by Covid-19, the EU’s slow vaccine rollout has offered little solace in…
Why are so many health workers turning down the vaccine?
On Saturday the government hit its target of administering a first vaccine dose to 15 million of the highest-risk groups…
Portrait of the week: A royal baby, Boohoo buyouts and France legalises lunch al desko
Home On Sunday 7 February, as the week began, 11,465,210 people in the United Kingdom had received a first vaccination…
Papers, please: immunity IDs are on the way
Where will vaccine passports lead?
Tory nerves are growing over Boris Johnson's Covid strategy
When the third lockdown was voted on in the House of Commons last month, there was a smaller Tory rebellion than the previous…
