lockdown
When money dies
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. ‘Money for Nothing’ is more than just…
For now, age isn’t just a number
When I told my seven-year-old granddaughter, over Zoom, how much I missed being with her, I added: ‘Maybe it won’t…
Hope in a takeaway bag
You don’t dine in the age of pandemic: you scuttle about in the wreckage. If you can afford food, and…
On track and trace
The concept of the state tracking our every movement is anathema to this magazine and, we assume, to its liberal…
Emperor Ferguson has no clothes
I originally had Neil Ferguson down as a kind of Henry Kissinger figure. The professor of mathematical biology at Imperial…
Dear Mary
Q To your correspondent with a guest whose table manners offend (2 May), you suggest screening him off with a…
Force of nature
Spending time outside is vital for mental health
Nothing routine
Autism and lockdown are a challenging mix
Real life
The rain showers had a strange and wondrous effect. All the cyclists, joggers and dog walkers that were coming from…
Cracking the code
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
Lullabies and lockdown
I laughed when my Spanish midwife mentioned in passing that in Latin American countries they have a custom for new…
Wild life
I keep thinking what I’ll do when we regain our liberty — and I picture that beer at the end…
Ten reasons to end the lockdown now
Writing in this magazine a month ago, I applauded the government’s stated aim of trying to follow the science in…
Does COVID-19 mean socialism or social collapse?
Inequality is the price we pay for civilization. Property rights, inheritance customs and unequal gains from technological innovation have long…
Does lockdown really decrease Covid deaths?
It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes –…
Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
The coronavirus shutdown is over by public demand. There are crowds of sunbathers in the parks of New York City…
Sweden tames its ‘R number’ without lockdown
Sweden has been the world’s Covid-19 outlier, pursuing social distancing but rejecting mandatory lockdown. Schools, bars and restaurants are open…
The problem with immunity passports
Could we see ‘immunity passports’ in Britain? Ministers are reportedly discussing them as a route out of lockdown. According to today’s…
Slippers
Tartan, monogram, moccasin, clog. What do your slippers say about you? Trick us all you like with your office Manolos,…
Without ceremony
The competitive world of Covid brides
A difficult path
The route out of lockdown won’t be smooth – or fast
Diary
When the post office and stores closed in our village on Exmoor, my youngest stared out of the car window…
Clapping for Caroline
One of the nice things about having a column in The Spectator is that I get a chance to reply…
Antisocial distancing
Rudeness is spreading like a virus
If this is a war, let’s fight it like one
Under the cloud of conformity that has settled over the land as a replacement for air pollution, heretics who doubt…
