lockdown
Letters
Disastrous decisions Sir: One cannot but agree wholeheartedly with Lionel Shriver (‘This is not a natural disaster’, 16 May). Given…
Nothing to applaud
The NHS is letting down thousands of patients
Is living without risk really living at all?
Taking my life in my hands — as we all do when getting out of bed — I walked along…
Japan’s Covid success is a mystery
Japan’s Covid ‘State of Emergency’ is now officially over. Tokyo, the last of Japan’s 47 prefectures to be officially released…
The big debate: is lockdown wrong?
Is lockdown a gargantuan mistake? That’s the view of a growing number of thinkers and critics, including The Spectator’s very…
A short guide to justifying re-lockdown
Fear is gripping the American public health and media establishments: they are losing control. States are belatedly (and far too…
Dominic Cummings has a human shield: Boris Johnson
The rule of modern politics, let’s call it Trump’s first law, is that if you are being attacked for apparently…
What’s more disturbing: Cummings’ behaviour – or the mob pursuing him?
The Dominic Cummings story is deeply disturbing. No, not the fact that Cummings and his wife, Mary Wakefield, took what…
X number of days to save the economy!
I wonder what the Labour party will use as its scare slogan at the next election? After all, the usual…
Why aren’t liberals fighting for liberty?
It has become a commonplace among social psychologists that one of the characteristics that unites conservatives is our sensitivity to…
Low life
The most visible local landmark is a solitary two-headed Jurassic mountain called Le Bessillon, six miles long and 800 metres…
This is Royal Mail’s chance to appoint a boss fit for the new age
The Royal Mail worker who rang my bell to deliver an Amazon package on Friday was wearing a glittery ball…
Are you a lockdown eel or a pygmy goat?
I identify strongly with the garden eels in the Tokyo aquarium. Pre-corona, they were perfectly sociable. Come opening hour, when…
When actions speak louder than words
For all the abuse heaped on the Behavioural Insights Team early in the crisis, let’s not forget that the only…
The dream is over
It started when, the day after the announcement of some lockdown easing, I drove five miles along the coast road.…
Contagious behaviour
What if the virus had started somewhere other than China?
The lock of love
Being stuck at home will make our relationships stronger
Low life
France is divided into a red zone and a green zone. We’re green. Green for go. From this morning we…
Lockdown may kill me
I have a new job, which is maintaining a website called Lockdown Sceptics (lockdownsceptics.org). It’s a compendium of evidence that…
Lives vs lives
The global cost of lockdown
This is not a natural disaster
Should our future permit an occupation so frivolous, historians years from now will make a big mistake if they blame…
Diary
Entering my 54th day of quarantine, I recall how much I was looking forward to this spring in England. There…
Portrait of the Week
Home The government changed its slogan from ‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’ to ‘Stay alert, control the virus,…
Class divide
It would be a tragedy if one of the legacies of Covid-19 — a disease which hardly affects children physically…
The Turf
There is racing elsewhere in the world. It restarted in France on Monday, la course de chevaux being classed in…
