coronavirus
Stranger than fiction
How I’d write Covid: The Thriller
Poles apart
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
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
Fear of inflation is stalking the Treasury
Barometer
French lessons France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in jail, with two of them suspended, for…
Following the herd
The ethics of Covid jabs for children
Letter from Barbados
For the past few weeks there’s been a 7 p.m. curfew in Barbados as part of what the government calls…
Taking office
Is now the time to invest in commercial property?
The Spectator’s Notes
There is a ‘pervasive presence of Chinese military-linked conglomerates and universities in the sponsorship of high-technology research centres in many…
Covid’s long game
Why do some people’s symptoms not go away?
Powers of persuasion
The art of the public information ad
Forbidden love
When will it be legal to hug my girlfriend again?
Barometer
State of the art Graffiti on Edvard Munch’s first version of ‘The Scream’ was revealed to be the work of…
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,…
The Spectator’s Notes
Sir William Macpherson of Cluny has died. His obituaries praise him for his 1998 inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case.…
Bring on the vaccine passports
For more than 20 years, I’ve been raging away at pointless rules. When my blood’s up, there’s not a foam-flecked…
Is there any end to this tunnel?
We should talk about horizons, and the setting of desirable ones. A newspaper gave it a go the other day…
Good grief
A proper funeral is a great comfort
Barometer
Target practice The government hit its target of giving a first Covid vaccine to 15 million of the most vulnerable…
Portrait of the Week
Home The target was achieved of vaccinating, by the middle of February, about 15 million people of 70 or over,…
The need for speed
Can we outpace Covid?
A prison of our own making
Anyone who’s been through customs Down Under isn’t surprised by the region’s OTT response to Covid. Having been X-rayed before…
Portrait of the week
Home On Sunday 7 February, as the week began, 11,465,210 people in the United Kingdom had received a first vaccination…
My palate and the plague
Later this week, on Spectator.co.uk, I will resolve a mystery that has featured in a lot of Zoom traffic around…
