Madness this week: royals without honour, roadmaps and a lesson in chitchat

The insanity of the week commencing 15 February 2021.

Madness this week: vaccine Fascism, trouble in America and the victim princess

The insanity of the week commencing 9 November 2020.

Madness this week: Keir and Covid, sex bans, Phillip Schofield and Laurence Fox

    The insanity of the week commencing 12 October 2020.

The Thursday clap-tacular must now be put out of its misery!

Who is going to be the one to bring the peculiar spectacle of clapping at the sky every Thursday at 8 pm. To an end? Whoever they are, I sincerely hope they hurry up.

The elusory world of absolute safety is a bigger nightmare than the pandemic

    

Every day when you open your eyes first thing in the morning, no longer certain if it’s Saturday or Wednesday as every day under suffocating oppression feels much the same, take a moment to think about the Britain you are living in

Keep smiling – lockdown luvvies are there to give us a good laugh

Whenever one is prone to despair at the latest manifestation of the utter stupidity of one’s fellow man, it’s always worth taking a good look at who is most enthusiastic about it. It will inevitably give you something to smile about even through your cloud of misanthropy.

Many of our elderly will forgo an excess of compassion for Bingo and book club.

IF there’s one thing that has always struck me about old people, it is how sanguine they are about their own mortality.

The case for lockdown falls apart more each day, but our leaders are in too deep to dig us out

Despite tragic mortality figures, Spain and Italy have not resisted the most gradual and tentative of easing in their national lockdowns. Yet the UK government continues to insist that the subject cannot even be discussed yet, apparently awaiting the passing of some kind of Coronavirus peak that will come and go at some point unknown.

Lockdown is poorly justified, unsustainable and an assault too far on civil liberties

A prime minister in intensive care, and 6,159 people dead! Coronavirus looks serious – and it is, no question.

People are afraid and a country is hurting. Every day we await with sad resignation the latest death figures, now read out and poured over like some macabre cricket score card: 786 all out yesterday.