Travel
Everywhere is Somewhere
I’m off. In the week when you may read this, my partner and I will be winging our way to…
Is it too cruel to throw Lynch into the jaws of US justice?
Be glad you’re not in Dr Mike Lynch’s shoes. A London judge has ruled that the founder of the Cambridge-based…
Tried and tested
Rather miraculously, my daughter managed to leave the country last week to go on holiday with a group of friends.…
Better to back clean aviation than to punish frequent flyers
Have you been scanning airline websites for exotic destinations to which your double-jabbed status might allow you to slip away…
Travel quarantine scrapped for double-jabbed
International travel rules will be relaxed on 19 June as part of the wider scrapping of social distancing rules and masks.…
So near and yet so strange
This pleasant volume, the author announces in the introduction, is ‘not a nature book, or even a travel book, so…
Wild life
Kenya In March, Global Britain signed a new, post-Brexit trade deal with Kenya. This was a welcome agreement for my…
The party elite
Politicians made the rules – so they know how to bend them
Air travel is in terminal danger
During the political car crash of 2019, I couldn’t imagine ever agreeing with Theresa May. Yet last week she exhibited…
Barometer
On this day Would 19 July make a suitable ‘freedom day’ (assuming Covid restrictions are lifted even then)? There is…
Hot housing
A second home in Cornwall is nothing to be proud of
I miss my messy, unpredictable life
If you ask people what they’ve missed out on since the pandemic, they’ll probably lament their cancelled plans. Weddings postponed,…
Variants and variables
The scare over the Indian variant of coronavirus this week is a taste of what to expect over the next…
Let me out
Has it ever been more difficult to plan a family holiday? At the time of writing, it is illegal to…
Holiday let
It’s time to get Britain travelling again
The West has lost its moral high ground
International travellers running the gauntlet of English airports must already test negative for Covid before the flight, and on return…
To the moon – and back
I have just applied to fly around the moon. My chances of being selected are slim, but is it impossible?…
Barometer
Target practice The government hit its target of giving a first Covid vaccine to 15 million of the most vulnerable…
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…
The death of Mid-Atlantic Man
As an ambitious journalist making my way in Fleet Street, I dreamed of becoming a Mid-Atlantic Man. Tom Wolfe came…
Gulf stream
Instagramming from Dubai isn’t ‘work’
Calculated risks
Classes of people at moderate risk from Covid-19. Addenda to current NHS guidelines. Those at risk from coronavirus now include…
Get yourself to Sweden – while you still can
An idea gains ground that we shouldn’t go abroad any more: that the very act of travelling without urgent reason…
First resort
The old-fashioned charm of holiday camps
Actress’s Notebook
Rather like unpacking after a holiday, when you take unworn clothes from the case still neatly folded because the occasion…
