coronavirus
My taste of lockdown freedom on the Camino pilgrimage
A few of the hip young things sitting along the Lisbon quayside turned their heads my way as my walking…
Capital punishment: why wealth taxes don’t work
Why wealth taxes don’t work
The true cost of school closures – an interview with the children's commissioner
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen
Australian border closures would work for Britain. Here’s why
Closing the borders worked Down Under. Could it work here?
Vaccine wars: the global battle for a precious resource
The vaccine wars are turning nasty
The horrifying toll of lockdown on the poor and mentally ill
I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…
Quarantine and the freedom paradox
Who would have thought, this time last year, that the British government would be planning to detain British nationals at…
The EU’s vaccine catastrophe is a crisis of its own making
As news emerges that both Pfizer and AstraZeneca are cutting supplies of their Covid-19 vaccines to the EU by up…
The truth about the vaccine ‘postcode lottery’
‘Postcode lottery!’ people scream when one area feels less well treated than another in a public service — in this…
What makes us think they’ll release lockdown after vaccines?
Has the coup happened yet? You have the advantage over me. It was supposed to have taken place on Sunday.…
Portrait of the week: Vaccination, inauguration and a food box denunciation
Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…
Could the Australian approach to Covid work in Britain?
The government’s most important economic policy is its vaccination programme. The speed at which people are immunised will determine when…
How cults crumble
There’s something creepy about the way we call Donald Trump fans a cult, then watch them hungrily, hoping they’ll do…
How effective has the Covid vaccine been in Israel?
The world’s eyes are on Israel at the moment, as the country continues its phenomenally fast roll-out of the Pfizer…
How Netanyahu exploits Israel’s vaccine success
The vaccine has arrived at just the right time for the Israeli PM
Portrait of the week: Queen gets vaccinated, Trump supporters riot and gorillas catch Covid
Home The government, in the face of overwhelming numbers of people with Covid-19 being admitted to hospital, told everyone to…
What have we learnt from this pandemic?
So great have been the government’s failures over Covid that it would be easy to forget to give credit where…
The comment that baffled Boris
Real men are not supposed to confess to feeling fear. But I am frightened, second time round, about the plague.…
Footballers have made a pig’s ear of Covid rules
It’s the Portuguese piglet you feel really sorry for. The diminutive (ready cooked) porker — a festive delicacy all over…
Dear Mary: Should I rename my grandmother’s dog to avoid offense?
Your problems solved
Covid, like war, brings less obvious shocks
Domenica Lawson, daughter of Rosa and Dominic, the former editor of this paper, has Down’s syndrome. She is classified as…
Portrait of the week: New year, new lockdown
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced harsher coronavirus restrictions in England, resembling those last March, except that bubbles continued.…
A race against time: can the vaccine outpace the virus?
Can the vaccine outpace the virus?
Why 2021 could be the year of economic Armageddon
The British economy is wrapped in bandages – we won’t know whether the wound has scabbed or turned septic until…
Does anyone care about the middle class?
The American middle class is in a precarious position. After decades of decline — the percentage of Americans in the…
