Day: 13 September 2021

In tonight's London Calling, James Delingpole and I rage about the decision to vaccinate kids, lament the weaponisation of Emma Raducanu and celebrate Stanley Tucci's victory over Meghan Markle in last night's Emmy Awards.

Nadhim Zahawi said in a House of Commons speech tonight that the vaccination of healthy 12-15 year-olds would go ahead – and confirmed that children, not their parents, would have the final say about whether to get jabbed.

More than 300,000 arrivals from 'Amber List' countries are suspected to have broken quarantine rules between March and May – close to a third of all arrivals from these destinations in this time.

The U.K.'s four Chief Medical Officers have advised that healthy teenagers should be given Covid jabs, meaning the Government will push on with its roll-out despite being warned by the JCVI of the risk of side effects.

Number 10 is already downplaying the idea that vaccine passports are dead and buried, insisting that they could still form a "first-line defence" against a winter wave of Covid.

The fallacy of 'politician's logic' was popularised by the much-loved British sitcom Yes, Prime Minister. And it seems to explain lockdown: 'Something must be done; lockdown is something; therefore we must do it.'

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.