vaccination
Europe’s human rights judges are right not to ban compulsory vaccines
If you think public health authorities in England are overbearing, spare a thought for the Czechs. Parents who fail to…
Sticking point
The need to tackle vaccine hesitancy
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Interior silence’ is not a phrase I associate with Sarah Sands, until recently the editor of the BBC Today programme…
Portrait of the week
Home A Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who…
Real life
‘Have you had your jab, Margery?’ said one Surrey lady to another in the queue for take-away coffee at the…
Low life
Around the time that poor M. Macron was casting televised aspersions on the AstraZeneca jab, I was offered one by…
The Spectator’s Notes
In 2000, this magazine dipped its toe in murky Irish water. Stephen Glover wrote three articles, one provocatively entitled ‘The…
Following the herd
The ethics of Covid jabs for children
Biden’s vaccine drive is too slow
I’m hooked on vaccine data. Barely an hour at my desk goes by without hitting refresh on a website telling…
Diary
Did Nicola Sturgeon lie to the Scottish parliament? A Holyrood committee into the now infamous Alex Salmond affair has been…
Where will vaccine passports take us?
Desperate to find someone to commemorate with a statue for having done great things, but who isn’t a white male,…
Bring on the vaccine passports
For more than 20 years, I’ve been raging away at pointless rules. When my blood’s up, there’s not a foam-flecked…
It is time to make friends with the EU
On Monday morning, Clément Beaune, Emmanuel Macron’s Europe Minister, clipped out the section of his media interview criticising Britain’s vaccination…
Boris hits vaccine target – what happens next?
The government has good news to shout about this afternoon with ministers reaching their target of offering a first dose vaccine…
Jabs and jab-nots
Where will vaccine passports lead?
Barometer
Best before The government plans to introduce labels on domestic appliances informing consumers how long they are likely to last.…
Calling the shots
How the Vaccine Taskforce did it
Portrait of the week
Home About 80,000 people in eight places in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked in door-to-door visits…
Shots fired
The vaccine wars are turning nasty
Diary
Monday started with me opening my bedroom windows to let what little light there is come through, only to find…
A shot at success
The vaccine has arrived at just the right time for the Israeli PM
What have we learnt?
So great have been the government’s failures over Covid that it would be easy to forget to give credit where…
Bad shot
The EU has botched its vaccination programme
A race against time
Can the vaccine outpace the virus?
Hot shots
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
