Back in March 2020 Toby was among a depressingly select group of journalists who opposed the lockdowns. The other side included his now Spectator Editor Michael Gove, who has let him write about it in this week's magazine.
In January 2021, Leeds student Xen Watts organised a lockdown snowball fight and was hit with a £10k fine that ruined his life. Half of the 120,000 Covid fines went to 18-24 year-olds. We owe young people a massive apology.
Yet another report – this time from the Human Rights Commission – has found that Australia's Covid response caused significant harm. But there's a blind spot, says Rebekah Barnett: the vaccine mandates get a pass.
When the state confined whole populations to their homes and bossed us around for years during Covid, where were the philosophers who say they love liberty? Cheering on the authoritarians, says Prof James Alexander.
Britain's self-inflicted decline began in March 2020 when our leaders surrendered to lockdown hysteria instead of standing firm, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
In America, Prof Jay Bhattacharya, the lockdown sceptic once derided by NIH chief Francis Collins as a "fringe epidemiologist", is about to take over as NIH head in truly sweet karma. But the UK is still mired in denial.
Mannheim in Germany is in lockdown after a car was driven into a crowd, causing casualties. Police have told residents to stay at home.
It's taken three years for Putin to get a few miles inside a run-down country like Ukraine, but the Establishment still pushes the idea that he can roll over the rest of Europe. Is he really our enemy, asks James Leary.
The Covid Inquiry's presumption that the vaccines were safe and effective is like the Post Office Inquiry presuming that Horizon was reliable, say Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley. It compromises the entire enterprise.
Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
