coronavirus
Pass over
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…
Holiday let
It’s time to get Britain travelling again
The new opposition
Ed Davey on why the Lib Dems are the only party voting against lockdown laws
Sticking point
The need to tackle vaccine hesitancy
Normal life matters
I wonder exactly when we agreed that it is more of a priority to gather with strangers than to meet…
Portrait of the Week
Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…
Resurrected
Has the vaccine cured my long Covid?
WHO knows?
We still can’t be sure where the virus originated
The fightback
Western democracies must unite against China’s economic bullying
Is the UK about to be forced into a vaccine war?
Is the UK about to be forced into a vaccine war? That’s the concern in Westminster after Brussels upped the…
Dear Mary
Q. Before Covid, I was staying with friends in the country every other weekend. As a single man living in…
The Spectator’s Notes
The recently departed head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, wants to balance China’s ideological antagonism to the West with the…
Inspector Spector
Britain’s leading epidemiologist on the ticking time bomb of long Covid
Barometer
Calculated risk It is a year since Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College team published the paper that inspired the government to…
Boris Johnson attempts to calm vaccine concerns
The message from Boris Johnson’s press conference this evening was one of reassurance. Following the decision by several EU member…
The EU’s jab snatching ruse is legally absurd
For some months now, increasingly disturbing statements on the law or legal threats have emanated from the EU. Some of…
Why isn’t Britain adopting the Danish roadmap?
Denmark’s greatest philosopher, Søren Kirkegaard, experienced only one epidemic in his lifetime, the cholera outbreak of 1853, which occurred after…
Was the Clapham Common vigil unsafe? A look at the data
After facing widespread political condemnation, the Metropolitan Police has defended its handling of the Clapham Common vigil on public health grounds. …
The West has lost its moral high ground
International travellers running the gauntlet of English airports must already test negative for Covid before the flight, and on return…
Diary
Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I…
Touching distance
Since the start of this year, cases of Covid-19 have been in decline. Hospital admissions have fallen 80 per cent…
Letter from Japan
Tokyo This week was the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in…
