Covid-19

Plus: Stormy Daniels’s message to Melania & Hunter Biden in court

It is unthinkable that a credible investigation has not yet been conducted

He was integral to stunting learning, and the damage has been immense

Democrats and teachers’ unions to be hardest hit this November

New York City might be trapped in a state of fear but Vermont is doing just fine

‘This looks really bad’

This is a blatant lie

We can’t sustain this extreme fear forever

The biggest question facing Boris Johnson is the future of his so-called vaccine passports. A few months ago, the idea was dismissed by No. 10 as ‘discriminatory’. Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, said: ‘We are not a papers-carrying country.’ But now, without debate or democratic scrutiny, vaccine passports are quickly heading from unthinkable to unstoppable. Today, No. 10 released more details — hence the questions Johnson is facing. But bizarrely, the Prime Minister was unable to admit to any of it, and pretended to be confused by what he was being asked. This matters. If he cannot acknowledge his flagship scheme, leaving such an indefensible gulf between what his government has just published and what he has just said, he may already be

Or why the media is so desperate to turn good COVID-19 news into bad