Tag: lockdown

Total Results: 214


Testing for COVID-19 . Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty
10/08/2020 - 1:28pm

Did the Government waste £161m in Moonshot money? DnaNudge, a company with no track record in disease diagnostics, has won a contract for Covid testing

Tom Chivers

Friday, October 2

02.10

Did ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ cause a second wave? Many believe the Government's policy was a health disaster — but their evidence is shaky

Aveek Bhattacharya

02.10

How hysterical leaders fail workers Health and safety regulations should be based on a sense of proportion — not the aim to eliminate all risk

Paul Embery

Tuesday, September 22

22.09

Is this the second wave? Sceptics who talk up 'false positives' are engaging in wishful thinking

Tom Chivers

22.09

Parliament’s pathetic Covid response At times of national crisis, shouldn't our MPs hold Government to account?

Paul Embery

Friday, September 11

11.09

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response Blunt, panicky lockdowns across the continent are doing far more damage than the pandemic itself

Ian Birrell

Friday, September 4

04.09

‘Cultural appropriation’ is American cultural imperialism The outrage over Adele shows the extent to which the US culture wars intrude in places they don't belong

Douglas Murray

Thursday, August 27

27.08

Can our leaders cope with freedom? Whatever the Government chooses to do next, it will be responsible for death or destruction

Timandra Harkness

Friday, August 7

07.08

Nicola Sturgeon’s canny doom-mongering The SNP has taken advantage of coronavirus to further its nationalist cause — and all Britons will pay the price

Douglas Murray

Friday, July 31

31.07

Is it any wonder we’re so divided? The relentless message of disunity promoted by BLM erodes any solidarity we gained under lockdown

Douglas Murray

Friday, July 24

24.07

Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden Anders Tegnell, architect of a unique response to the pandemic, defends his approach

Freddie Sayers

Thursday, July 23

23.07

Have I become a bourgeois cliche? My lockdown obsession with fine wine has refocused my attention on life's important little details

Giles Fraser