coronavirus
Dear Mary: How can I prioritise ‘first division’ friends after lockdown?
Q. Before Covid, I was staying with friends in the country every other weekend. As a single man living in…
What happens when Facebook pays for news?
The recently departed head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, wants to balance China’s ideological antagonism to the West with the…
The ‘long Covid’ time bomb: an interview with Tim Spector
Britain’s leading epidemiologist on the ticking time bomb of long Covid
Has Neil Ferguson been proved right about Covid?
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…
The poetic beauty of science
Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I…
The virus is in retreat. Isn’t it time the public is trusted to decide how to behave?
Since the start of this year, cases of Covid-19 have been in decline. Hospital admissions have fallen 80 per cent…
Will the Tokyo Olympics go ahead?
Tokyo This week was the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in…
How I’d write Covid: The Thriller
How I’d write Covid: The Thriller
Poles apart: why the Polish community doesn’t want the vaccine
Why the Polish community doesn’t want the vaccine
The UK economy is suffering worse than most
Last week The Spectator highlighted new data from the OECD that offers a weekly update comparing a country’s current GDP…
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…
Rishi’s nightmare: will inflation crush the recovery?
Fear of inflation is stalking the Treasury
Which countries still haven’t had a single case of Covid?
French lessons France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in jail, with two of them suspended, for…
The moral debate over Covid jabs for children
The ethics of Covid jabs for children
Did I give Russ Abbot Covid?
For the past few weeks there’s been a 7 p.m. curfew in Barbados as part of what the government calls…
Is this a once-in-a-generation chance to invest in central London?
Is now the time to invest in commercial property?
Will social kisses survive Covid?
There is a ‘pervasive presence of Chinese military-linked conglomerates and universities in the sponsorship of high-technology research centres in many…
The mysteries of ‘long Covid’
Why do some people’s symptoms not go away?
The art of the public information ad
The art of the public information ad
For lovers who live apart, it’s been a long year
When will it be legal to hug my girlfriend again?
