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...lockdown makes sense. Hard, or legally enforced, lockdown, with its far more stringent measures, is entirely another matter, chiefly because it comes at a very significant cost. These costs are...

...lockdown: alcohol off-trade sales rose sharply at the beginning of the lockdown, prompting the hand wringing and bed-wetting by coercive healthists mentioned above. But at the same time as off-trade...

Is wearing a facemask against covid-19 a curious, curious in that the intent is to keep the danger in rather than out, variant of the tin foil hat? Both are...

...hard lockdown, is: do hard lockdowns save lives overall? If the answer is yes, then the more complex secondary question is: do the benefits outweigh the harms? Natural experiments such...

Back in the 1980s, John Naughton, The Listener’s TV critic at the time cracked Norwegian after hearing a recording in English being played backwards and forwards. Norwegian, he realised in...

Shall I compare thee to a turnip? Dr No has been dreaming up Odes to Nick Robinson ever since the interviewer with a voice like a squeaking balloon and a...

Even in the bleakest of lockdowns, a Sunday evening dose of The Good Karma Hospital fills the unforgiving hour with sixty minutes’ worth of pure escape. ITV’s Call the Midwife...

...it not! I suppose "lockdown" is a metaphor based on antics within US prisons - apt, but only up to a point. The prison version presumably works, the Covid version...

Now that Boris the Builder has failed in his attempts to achieve greatness, first as the New Churchill, and then as the Noo Roosevelt, one hardly dare contemplate who is...