quarantine
High life
Chelsea/Gstaad Oh, to be in England! But let’s start at the beginning. I challenge any reader to claim they are…
Vaccines should mean more freedom – not less
Do vaccines lead to freedom – or to more lockdown rules? That very question would have seemed bizarre a few…
A prison of our own making
Anyone who’s been through customs Down Under isn’t surprised by the region’s OTT response to Covid. Having been X-rayed before…
Portrait of the week
Home On Sunday 7 February, as the week began, 11,465,210 people in the United Kingdom had received a first vaccination…
Hancock launches his quarantine crackdown
The search for the right balance on border policy continues, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced this afternoon a host…
Barometer
New normal Why have so many people started saying ‘normalcy’ rather than ‘normality’? — Normalcy has been traced back to…
Aussie rules
Closing the borders worked Down Under. Could it work here?
The freedom paradox
Who would have thought, this time last year, that the British government would be planning to detain British nationals at…
The human costs of an ‘Australian-style’ quarantine system
Richard Curtis’ iconic Love Actually airport scenes may fall on the wrong side of saccharine, but they capture something of…
Travel sickness
The quarantine debacle could cripple British tourism
Quarantine will block more holidays abroad than foreign virus-carriers
All logic suggests that the 14-day quarantine for arrivals from abroad really is, as Michael O’Leary of Ryanair put it,…
The growing rebellion against quarantine for UK arrivals
The government’s most unpopular policy on its own benches is its plan to make almost everyone arriving in this country…
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…
The changes to come in the post-COVID world order
The Democrats are taking their stand on the coronavirus crisis in an untenable position. It is like building a defensive…
Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown
COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, is an epidemiological scourge — but it’s also a clarifying catalyst for American politics. The virus’s…
Coronavirus lockdowns are cowardice
This is a piece about death. Obviously death is a serious topic, perhaps as serious as anything you could possibly…
Trump walks the recovery tightrope
President Trump’s decision to set the United States back on the path to work will be decried as mere politics,…
Coronavirus must not rob us of our liberties forever
The American economist and historian Robert Higgs noted long ago that during the 20th century the various wars, and the…
The virus is not invincible, but it’s exposing who’s irreplaceable
In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted,…
Trump isn’t the only one to blame for our slack response to COVID-19
One of the mantras for interpreting the nature of Donald Trump has always been to take him ‘seriously, but not…
Titanic shifts
It wasn’t a coincidence that the US government chose Ellis Island as an immigration station. The crucial word is ‘island’.…
After the coronavirus, who wins the recovery?
We are living through a gruesome case study in the irrationality of elites. COVID-19 is a serious disease, but the…
