I’ve started a dating site for lockdown skeptics
The idea is that if you’re a COVID realist you don’t want to go out with a hysteric who frets about a ‘second wave
How to get into a club and onto a plane
‘OK, Charlie, put your mask on,’ I whispered. ‘And whatever you do, don’t sneeze’
We’re all thought criminals now
If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves
How did I end up in Epstein’s little black book?
If Ghislaine had offered me a lift on Epstein’s private jet in the mid-1990s, I would have accepted
Just-one-knee syndrome
They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground
The antibody test that proved my wife wrong
If I complain of being tired, one of the kids will say: ‘What’s the matter, Dad? Another bout of coronavirus?’
The protesters have brought down the lockdown
We’re not allowed to go to weddings or funerals, but it’s perfectly acceptable to attend mass rallies
Why is YouTube so afraid of free speech?
I, too, think the 5G theory is silly, but that’s not a good reason to censor it
Unfortunately our new puppy is not just for lockdown
Caroline has already declared that she prefers sharing a bed with the dog to sharing with me
Liberal fears are contagious
People like me are treated as if we’re infectious and anyone getting too close might catch our ‘toxic’ views
Xi’s useful idiots against free speech
Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies
This lockdown may kill me
I’ve become a kind of hermit, living in the shed at the bottom of my garden and rarely seeing sunlight
COVID-19 is a terrible snob
Survival of the richest
Neil Ferguson’s remarkable fall from grace
It’s time our tribal chief found a more sensible adviser. This witch doctor, like so many before him, has turned out to have feet of clay
Did anyone really believe what my wife wrote about me?
Spectator writers are almost never in earnest, unless it’s after midnight and we’ve been drinking
If you really want to lose friends, start a magazine
Julie said if she ever saw me in the Groucho Club again, she’d stab me with her nail file
Our puppy has no respect for the six-feet rule
I have begun to suspect that the ‘poo’ in her breed name is not a reference to poodle but to something else
I’m recovering — but I glimpsed the coronavirus cliff edge
I had a strong sensation of my body being invaded by a parasite which was sapping my strength
Britain needs Boris, the extraordinary man I’ve known for 35 years
He cannot resist the pull of obligation to his country, the need to be of service
Dissent over coronavirus research isn’t dangerous — but stifling debate is
The best way to defeat this enemy will be to keep faith with our commitment to intellectual freedom, not to abandon it
Social justice isn’t always just
The reaction of most accused men is to say nothing in the hope that the outrage caravan will move on
Quarantine with our new puppy will send me barking
The fact that her brain is the size of a pea makes her hard to train
How far should we go to defend free speech?
The first days of the Free Speech Union
Ganging up on Israel
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
Why on earth did I volunteer to do stand-up?
There were two points when I couldn’t remember what came next and just plunged forward
