covid
Should Boris pay people to take the jab?
The steady stream of mixed messages coming from government ministers have been one of the few constants during the pandemic. Boris…
Are booster shots necessary?
Will Britain become the first country in the world to have a large section of its population immunised against Covid-19…
Australia proves the cost of zero Covid
The UK is growing at the fastest pace in 80 years. The United States, fuelled by President Biden’s stimulus programme,…
Can Boris and his ministers agree on the point of the Covid app?
What is the point of the Covid-19 app? Ministers seem to be as in the dark about the answer to…
Whitty’s lockdown warning will trouble Boris
In a Science Museum webinar yesterday, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, warned about the increasing number of people in…
Travel quarantine scrapped for double-jabbed
International travel rules will be relaxed on 19 June as part of the wider scrapping of social distancing rules and masks.…
Boris’s ‘freedom day’ spells misery for many
The projection from Sajid Javid that Covid-19 infections could surge to a record 100,000 per day in a few weeks,…
Boris Johnson’s plan for ‘freedom day’
Four weeks later than planned, ministers are preparing to lift nearly all Covid restrictions from 19 July. This afternoon, Boris…
Will Sajid Javid champion the end of Covid restrictions?
As the row over Matt Hancock’s relationship with his married adviser Gina Coladangelo continues to dominate the news, attention in…
Prepare for the EU’s ‘Hamilton moment’
The EU may boast a common currency like any other state (even if nearly a third of its 27 members…
France’s silent majority has rejected Macron – and Le Pen
I popped down to the Salle du Peuple on Sunday to see how the voting was going in the departmental…
Brexit, lockdown and the fracturing of British politics
Is our society becoming less tolerant and more viscerally tribal? Or is our politics provoking people into committing more angry…
Covid and the difficulty with ‘following the science’
Did anyone fancy being in Boris Johnson’s shoes before he made the decision to delay the full lifting of Covid…
France’s Covid stoicism has put Britain to shame
I feel like a teenager again. Tonight I’m allowed out until 11pm. What’s more, I’m permitted to go inside my…
Should we mix Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid jabs?
Should the NHS be mixing vaccines for better effect, or at least offering people who have had one dose of…
Does the Indian variant increase the risk of hospitalisation?
Is the Indian variant really more like to land you in hospital? That is the claim being widely reported this…
Prepare for China’s nationalist turn
In recent days, it has been striking how many people in Westminster and Whitehall now think the lab leak theory…
Why the vaccines should prevent a deadly third wave
Among the scientists and medics calling this week for caution in the government’s reopening of the economy was Dr Lisa…
Not so batty
What was once a Covid conspiracy theory is looking more plausible
Shot to pieces
The many failures of China’s vaccine programme
Portrait of the Week
Home The BBC was engulfed in doubts after a report by Lord Dyson blamed Martin Bashir for deceiving the late…
The turf
Humans are herd animals too. Jockeys, trainers, owners and those enjoying the few prized media attendance slots for racing behind…
Northern exposure
Scotland is open – and desperate for English tourists
The Dom bomb
The more anticipated a parliamentary appearance, the less it tends to live up to its billing. But Dominic Cummings’s testimony…
Real life
‘We’re closed for lunch,’ said the farmer, sitting behind the counter of his farm shop with a scowl on his…
