The Week
Barometer
Unusual crowd FC Seoul apologised after using sex dolls to try to create some atmosphere as games went ahead behind…
Sage advice
From the outset of the Covid-19 crisis, the government was determined that scientists would play a central and highly visible…
Diary
The choir of Notre Dame made a recording of Howard Goodall’s beautiful version of Psalm 23. Unlike cathedral choirs here…
Letters
Jobs for all Sir: Charles Bazlington championed Universal Basic Income in last week’s magazine (Letters, 9 May). It is welcome…
Barometer
Safety first The government was criticised for its new coronavirus slogan, ‘Stay alert’. What are the most common safety slogans…
Roman pop-up hospitals
The speed with which ‘model’ Nightingale hospitals have been designed and erected across the UK reminds one of the experts…
Diary
Entering my 54th day of quarantine, I recall how much I was looking forward to this spring in England. There…
Portrait of the Week
Home The government changed its slogan from ‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’ to ‘Stay alert, control the virus,…
Class divide
It would be a tragedy if one of the legacies of Covid-19 — a disease which hardly affects children physically…
The health of the people
The Prime Minister recently quoted Cicero’s famous dictum salus populi suprema lex esto, translating it as ‘Let the health (salus)…
On track and trace
The concept of the state tracking our every movement is anathema to this magazine and, we assume, to its liberal…
Letters
The case for small homes Sir: Your editorial rightly highlights what must be one of the government’s priorities once the…
Barometer
Admitting defeat 8 May is celebrated as VE Day, but it is also a date which marks a significant English…
Portrait of the Week
Home The government put its mind to the puzzle of how to get people back to work. Draft advice was…
Diary
Never have I stared at my own face so much. Not because I want to, it’s just always there now,…
Portrait of the Week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, returned to work at Downing Street after recovering from his Covid-19 sickness. Speaking outside…
Barometer
Multiplying by hundreds The Queen penned a personal 100th birthday message to Captain Tom Moore, who has raised money for…
Diary
When the post office and stores closed in our village on Exmoor, my youngest stared out of the car window…
Call that care?
As the NHS was preparing for the Covid onslaught, thousands of hospital patients were discharged to care homes in an…
Letters
End-of-life plans Sir: Charles Moore writes about his neighbour with poor lung function being telephoned about a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’…
Barometer
Oldies and goodies Captain Tom Moore, 99, raised more than £26 million by walking 100 laps of the garden of…
Letters
The closing of churches Sir: Stephen Hazell-Smith is quite right in writing that churches should re-open (Letters, 18 April), however…
Happy hebdomaversary
The Spectator’s 10,000th hebdomaversary (hebdomas, ‘a group of seven’: a weekly cannot have an anniversary) will surely be celebrated with…
The case for trust
Our Plan is entirely new, comprising – 1. The whole News of the Week: selected, sifted, condensed and arranged as…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
