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Their Lordships seemed to enjoy debating the heavy topic, but whether it will have an impact on behaviour is another question

By not wearing masks in a crowded House of Commons MPs are making life more difficult for those worried about the Covid pandemic

By not wearing masks in a crowded House of Commons MPs are making life more difficult for those worried about the Covid pandemic

I THINK we have an answer to the question I posed last week: how many deaths is too many? It seems to be something over 100 a day. Hence the screech of brakes from Boris Johnson, faced with the prospect of that number of fatalities by mid-August if Covid cases rise, as expected, to 50,000-100,000 a day. In bad years, flu kills over 300 a day so we may be masking up every winter. Mr Johnson executed what we in the business called a “reverse ferret” and turned Freedom Day, July 19, into Face mask Day, desperately urging people to continue observing the restrictions he had told them only...

Until lockdown is eased and basic liberties are restored, our society will be in peril  The sense that authority is being wielded fairly – essential to civilised life – is dissipating rapidly 14 March 2021 • 1:15pm They certainly have their uses, but neither Chris Whitty nor Patrick Vallance – the Government’s head honchos for medical and scientific advice – is ever going to be an expert on the wider impacts of curtailing basic freedom. Either could tell you all about the R value – the reproduction rate of Covid – but neither would have the first clue how to draw up an L valu...