lockdown
A race against time
Can the vaccine outpace the virus?
Portrait of the Year
January Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, signed the EU withdrawal agreement, sent from Brussels by train. Sajid Javid, the Chancellor…
Yes man
Rod Liddle talks to Rick Wakeman about lockdown, the Sex Pistols, and how you can’t have opinions any more
Ring out, wild bells
Save for those old enough to have lived through the second world war and its immediate austere aftermath, it would…
Wild life
Laikipia I was drinking in the fresh air on the high earth wall of my farm dam last week, when…
‘We won’t have zero Covid’
A scientific debate about the virus
Bride’s Notebook
I had a lockdown wedding. A 30-person, socially-distanced, sanitised church service was organised in under two weeks. Restrictions meant no…
Actress’s Notebook
To say that the past nine months have been tough is like saying a hurricane felt like a spring shower.…
Real life
If the novelty of going for a walk doesn’t wear thin for the marauding masses soon, I am going to…
High life
Harbour Island, Bahamas A singer named Shawn Mendes recently announced to millions of his fans: ‘The truth is, it’s so…
A morning in a diner with Michigan’s COVID rebels
Portage, Michigan The short notice taped to the door is addressed ‘to all government officials’. It gives them a warning:…
Every business is essential
Governors across the country are deploying their unilateral power to institute draconian measures which close small businesses, mostly those in…
The COVID response shows the left is losing its way
Last month, British Columbia announced that those who don’t wear masks indoors can now be fined $230. ‘To me, it’s…
Real life
Now that our social lives are a Venn diagram that only mathematicians can understand I am officially becoming a recluse.…
Why I can no longer police the coronavirus restrictions
Earlier this month I resigned as a Special Constable, after serving for ten years as a volunteer officer in three…
The public sector delusion
I wonder how much more money we will have to bung the teachers in order to inculcate within them an…
We need a dose of vaccine realism
One of my geniuses as both a commentator and a character is to confront what for most normal people amounts…
A shed of one’s own
I’ve moved out of my home. No, Caroline and I haven’t broken up. It’s just that we’re having the house…
The aftermath
How can Britain recover post-Covid?
Bad tidings
I was dreaming of a cancelled Christmas
Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?
‘I don’t think that word means what you think it means,’ says the Spaniard Inigo Montoya in the film The…
Dear Mary
Q. My son has moved his girlfriend into our fairly small house for the second lockdown. I am grateful for…
Sorry Cuomo, we’re doing Thanksgiving
New York governor Andrew Cuomo took the last can of Who-hash by announcing a ban on both indoor and outdoor…
What is the Great Reset?
The phrase has shot throughout the fringes of Right-Wing Twitter like a virus through a karaoke bar. According to Pauline…
Letters
Cancelled procedures Sir: Your leader (‘A lockdown too far’, 7 November) suggests that the Prime Minister should have shown ‘leadership’…
