Covid

Funnily enough, al fresco clapping and Government-mandated walks have lost much of their appeal in the bleak midwinter

The scientific method remains dissent and criticism, even for Lockdowns

Developing countries that the UK assists are being sidelined as the UK government’s attention is seized by Covid-19 and domestic troubles

Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant

Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby

The longer the pandemic and the platitudes go on, the more something doesn’t feel quite right

The Home Secretary ought to be up to the job

Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths

Hayek suggested a society which sacrificed liberty for security would gradually submit itself to authoritarian control

Policing the spirit of the law