lockdown
Time to recover
The discovery in Britain that a £5 steroid, dexamethasone, can be effective in treating Covid marks a potential breakthrough in…
Dairy
Reality seems thinner these days. As I walk along the high street, passers-by drift apart as though afraid of crossing…
Barometer
Made to measure The government started reviewing whether we should stay two metres apart while social distancing or whether one…
A class apart
The lockdown is widening the gap between rich and poor pupils
Grass divide
No one has stood up for the lawnless in lockdown
The full story of the ‘second wave’
Has the second wave of COVID-19 arrived? Or is it time to fully reopen the country? It depends where you…
COVID and the left: you can’t rally, but we can riot
Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19…
Diary
A lockdown diary is an oddly negative thing. At the dinner parties that we aren’t going to, we aren’t discussing…
Take back control
There is a grim inevitability to the trickle of round-robin letters from scientists who feel aggrieved at the government’s handling…
Low life
I walked to the salon in fiery sunshine. Gorgeous, zaftig Elody was wearing a short satin dressing gown of silver…
Full stream ahead
From time to time, every industry must adapt to some inconvenient technological advance. Suddenly, some part of what you offer…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Protestors have brought down the lockdown
I wasn’t surprised to see that a woman whose father died at a care home in Bicester in April has…
Real life
The two horses looked like they had never seen anything like it. They had wound up in a dark car…
Lessons from the dying
A nurse friend recently finished six weeks in a Covid intensive care unit where she witnessed many deaths and always…
The turf
Horse racing, it turns out, wasn’t the first sport back in post-lockdown action: that distinction went to pigeon racing when…
Wild life
I used to live in Mogadishu for months at a time, cooped up in compounds behind fortified walls. Venturing on…
Chef’s Notebook
I’d never have thought I’d be good at doing nothing. Or rather walking the dogs, loafing in the sun, trying…
New study suggests Covid infections were falling before lockdown
When lockdown was first imposed, there was little science to base it on. The virus was assumed to be growing…
The protests have not ended COVID-19
Remember when peaceful protesters of the economic lockdown were smeared for apparently putting lives at risk by utilizing their First…
End the lockdown. Stop the riots
These riots are not just about pent up frustration over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd under the…
Barometer
Site test What’s on offer in the town of Barnard Castle? — Ruined 12th-century castle perched high above the Tees,…
Why has coronavirus fled London?
My partner, Julian, hovered at my shoulder on Friday as I tapped out my Times Saturday column (about travel quarantine).…
Poor form
The lower-sixth has so much to lose from lockdown
Has lockdown worked?
Who occupies the post of chief adviser to the prime minister is not generally an issue of great interest to…
