Ryan Bourne: Why The Great Barrington Declaration’s time is coming soon

With high efficacy vaccines available to all adults, it looks like a sensible roadmap for policymakers.

Ferguson got it wrong, but the buck stops with Johnson

Leadership during the pandemic has involved, even more than usual, the strength to put up with uncertainty.

WATCH: “100,000 cases a day is almost inevitable”, says Ferguson as England prepares to lift Covid restrictions

“The real question is do we get to double that or even higher”, the professor adds, warning that this would lead to “major disruption” in the NHS.

Heads they win, tails they lose. Ministers are now under double pressure – from both pro and anti-lockdown campaigners.

The former claim that Ministers are moving too slowly; the latter that they’re moving too fast – or that they shouldn’t move at all.

Bella Wallersteiner: I attended the Freedom March yesterday. I’m no anti-vaxxer, or Covid denier. I just want a return of common sense.

Unless there is a dramatic change to the UK’s Covid situation, restrictions must end, as planned, on June 21.

David Davis: The Covid public inquiry should open in October, be held in two stages – and prepare for the unexpected

First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.

Parliament should vote monthly from March on ending the lockdown

The most important question today isn’t whether the Government’s plan is right or wrong, but how decisions should be made about it.

Steve Baker: Ministers should reject a second lockdown and prepare for Plan B

Government needs to reform the stucture of expert advice, and publish serious analysis of the cost of the options they face.

Anthony Browne: It’s time to drop the defeatist narrative about Britain and Covid-19. We have had many successes.

The coverage of death rates in this country has been lacking in nuance – leading people to have skewed perceptions of the UK’s performance.

Iain Dale: Gandhi was racist against black Africans. So by the rioters’ own reasoning, his statue should come tumbling down.

Plus: Ferguson’s evidence, two metres distance, Desmond’s donation, Jenrick’s response.

Daniel Hannan: Where we’ve got to with the lockdown. We say we want it. Then we break it.

There has been a vivid daily demonstration of our collective double-standard in the mass of journalists swarming outside Cummings’s house.

Imagine a Cabinet Minister claiming that the Government is “guided by the economics”

The decision that Boris Johnson must make after his return this week is and can only be political – not scientific.

The question isn’t whether to end the lockdown. It’s when and how to do it. Can the Government rise to the challenge?

The Prime Minister’s hospitalisation accentuates the need for a new strategic structure to support a new strategic plan.

Saving the NHS v saving the economy?

Ministers are walking the tightrope of trying to save both – which helps to put the words of the Deputy Chief Medical Officer yesterday in context.

Garvan Walshe: South Korea, Taiwan and Germany gained from mass testing. Why have we been so slow?

Britain cannot afford to take so long to incorporate international lessons as the epidemic progresses.