St Patrick’s Day – Covid-style: While the rest of the world celebrates, Dublin’s pubs are empty

Irish pubs were today shut for another St Patrick’s Day as the government in Dublin told people the most patriotic thing they can do is to stay at home. The streets of the famous Temple Bar, usually packed with drinkers, were largely deserted save for a few police patrols. Just over a year since the … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Oh locked down town of Bethlehem… a Nativity tale, Covid-style 

With Christmas approaching, I couldn’t help wondering how The Nativity might have turned out if coronavirus had been around back then.  The Bible would probably have recorded it something like this… And lo, Caesar Borisius decreed that a mass vaccination for the pestilence which is called Co-Vid should take place among all the citizenry of … Read more