Want to be attractive? Lose the mask
I go maskless. You should too
Coronavirus
Wednesday
Tuesday
In defense of fat-shaming
Being fat isn’t like being old, it’s a choice
Monday
Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s COVID lab
There are details emerging about the Wuhan Institute of Virology that merit further exploration
COVID restrictions are killing the national pastime
Watching pandemic baseball live is soul-crushing
Saturday
The mystery of natural COVID immunity
There is a massive lack of honesty about what’s fact and what’s policy in public health
Tuesday
A letter from Canada: we’re handling COVID worse than you
The situation feels worse now than it did at the outset of the pandemic
Monday
The rise of the Joels
Men can be just as totalitarian, petty, shrewish, haranguing and busybodied as women
Thursday
Bath time
If you have lived in Bath since the beginning of the pandemic you might not have noticed the changes so viscerally
Vaxxed lives matter!
The public-health mess of the outdoor protest
Sunday
Joe Biden is letting India down
India reported world record-breaking coronavirus infection rates for four days in a row
Wednesday
Where life is normal
Just outside of city centers the pandemic is hardly visible
Thursday
My painstaking preparations for Prince Philip’s funeral
The files arrived marked ‘STRICT EMBARGO’ and ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ and ‘FORTH BRIDGE REVISED’ and stamped with various crests and insignia. My dog Mot was intrigued and sniffed the stack warily. I have a few days to ingest this mass of information — ceremonial detail, armed forces involvement, order of service, processional arrangements, musical selections, historical precedent, the unabridged chronicle of Windsor and its College of St George and its splendid chapel — before hosting the BBC’s coverage of the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh. In four hours of live broadcasting, watched by an audience of millions, the focus is on accuracy and tone. Most of the people doling out advice
Let’s show vaccine passports for football fans the red card
As I’ve written before, the thing I’ve missed the most in the past 12 months is going to see QPR with my son Charlie. So I’m alarmed about the prospect of having to produce a ‘Covid status certificate’ every time I want to go to a game. That was the advice in a recent letter signed by various sporting panjandrums and I fear it will also be the recommendation of the taskforce set up by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to look into reopening sports venues. The first and most obvious objection is that it’s a breach of my liberty. It’s an inversion of the Common Law principle
Britain is in danger of repeating its post-war mistakes
In search of wisdom about how an officious government reluctantly relaxes its grip after an emergency, I stumbled on a 1948 newsreel clip of Harold Wilson when he was president of the Board of Trade. It’s a glimpse of long-forgotten and brain-boggling complexity in the rationing system. ‘We have taken some clothing off the ration altogether,’ he boasts, posing as a munificent liberator. ‘From shoes to bathing costumes, and from oilskins to body belts and children’s raincoats. Then we’ve reduced the points on such things as women’s coats and woollen garments generally and… on men’s suits.’ Does this remind you of anything? One day in November, George Eustice, the environment
Tuesday
The perpetual pandemic
Why politicians, pundits and ‘experts’ don’t want COVID to end
Friday
Show us the money
Why society needs cash
Thursday
Three cheers for federalism!
We should defer to the states more often
The relentless campaign to smear Ron DeSantis
CBS picked on the Ron guy
Tuesday
I hate vaccine passports — and you should too
Who believes that the government, Big Tech and corporations have our best interest at heart?
The city that never dies
It’s too soon to write off New York