The British government is preparing so-called vaccine passports to allow British holidaymakers to resume travel abroad, the Times has revealed.
The story attests to many things, not least the government’s remarkable commitment to mendacity: that vaccine passports were being considered has been repeatedly denied. (Which is bizarre, seeing as we have vaccine passports now: I have one myself, which allows me to travel into areas with high levels of yellow fever. So it would be strange, to put it mildly, if no such system were to be devised for coronavirus.)
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