“Hindsight bias”, as psychologists call it, is when we conveniently forget our incorrect opinions, says Daniel Hannan in The Sunday Telegraph. Some 66% of Brits backed the Iraq war when it began in 2003, but by 2015, only 37% remembered supporting the invasion. Something similar will happen with lockdowns. The evidence of their futility “keeps piling up”: a recent meta-study of 24 different surveys found that compulsory lockdowns reduced the Covid mortality rate by 0.2% – around 100 lives for the first wave in Britain. When you consider all the undetected tumours, the “taped-off playgrounds”, the loneliness and the bankruptcy, was it really worth it?

On the face of it, I’m a living embodiment of the American Dream, says Tara Westover in The New York Times. Born to poor Mormon parents who kept me out of school, “I had never set foot in a classroom before my first semester of college”. I got up at 3.40am to work a cleaning job before classes started – sleeping in my clothes to save precious time – and did other jobs on the side. My main memory of that period is, quite simply, of being tired. Constantly tired. But I strived and strived, and after graduating I secured a scholarship to Cambridge. My memoir became a bestseller; people constantly tell me my story is an “inspiration”.