The anti-COVID measures and edicts have turned the possible demise of thousands of enterprises into certainties -- pubs, butcher shops, newsagents, cinemas, grocery stores, they're all folding. All this has happened as the government announces, reverses and re-introduces more lockdowns, testing regimes and quarantines

The British media has tended to shy away from any discussion of why frightening respiratory diseases seem to emerge in China more often than elsewhere, and specifically how and why Covid-19 crossed from the animal world into the human population

It feels strange to write these words, but in a […]

The working-class people outside London who supplied the bulk of the Brexit vote now know all too well what their “betters” think of them. These 17 million people are unlikely to forget being condemned and mocked as knuckle-dragging racists, imperial nostalgists and illiterate halfwits

It was typical of Theresa May's almost autistic inability to understand the emotional needs of others that it did not occur to her to go to the scene of the great Grenfell Tower fire. That same flaw has been at the root of her many failures, be they Brexit negotiations, the treatment of foreign residents or jihadi brides

November did not get off to a good start. There […]

Even if you ignore the rancorous Brexit debate and Remainers' predictions that put the seven plagues of Egypt to shame, there have been plenty of entirely unrelated developments to make a Briton think seriously of buying a one-way ticket to the Antipodes or Americas