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TV quizzes An ITV drama told the story of Major Charles Ingram, who was convicted of cheating in the gameshow…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people who had died from the coronavirus disease Covid-19 in the UK by Sunday 5 April…
Letters
Is ‘the Science’ scientific? Sir: I hope that those in the highest places will have read and will act upon…
The Boris Factor
Ending the lockdown will require a leap of faith – one that can really only be made by the PM
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Game on A few things which are still going on, in spite of coronavirus: — Football in Belarus, where the…
to 2449: Stateless
The unclued lights, when preceded by a US state, form MISSISSIPPI 11, CALIFORNIA 22, VIRGINIA 27, HAWAII 37, RHODE ISLAND…
Covid-19 update: Six coronavirus patients survive after placental cell therapy
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Covid-19 update: Boris ‘in good spirits’ – but still in ICU
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, contracted the coronavirus disease Covid-19, as did Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. The Prince…
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People power Boris Johnson said that the reaction to the coronavirus crisis showed ‘There really is such a thing as…
Letters
Corona mysteries Sir: John Lee highlights the issue of dying of seasonal flu vs dying of coronavirus when assessing attributable…
Testing times
The failures of Britain’s pandemic planning have been brutally exposed in the past few weeks. The scandalous lack of protective…
To 2448: Issues
The novels are A Modern Utopia (anagram of AORTAE IMPOUND 17/5), The Time Machine (HEATHEN/MIMETIC 22/27), Tono-Bungay (BATON/YOUNG 29/31) and…
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Time out When did British workers start being ‘furloughed’? The word furlough is first recorded in the English language in…
2447: No small matter solution
BIG, the solution at 21D, can be associated with the ten unclued lights. First prize Elizabeth Shorter, St Austell, CornwallRunners-up…
Letters
Covid questions Sir: I worry that Matt Ridley and others are trying to frighten us about Covid-19 (‘Like nothing we’ve…
On liberty
For days, the Prime Minister had been resisting the kind of measures which have placed many other countries into lockdown,…
Portrait of the week
Coronavirus Sunday dawned with 233 people in the United Kingdom dead thus far from the coronavirus Covid-19 (a week earlier…
Portrait of the Week
Coronavirus The government asked all people over 70 to cease from social contact for at least 12 weeks in order…
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Taking off Who came up with the concept of ‘helicopter money’? — The term is derived from an essay in…
A common cure
For the Chancellor to produce an emergency bailout package just six days after delivering his Budget is an extraordinary state…
Letters
British science Sir: Dr Fink is right that the UK bats well above its weight through curiosity-driven research (‘Back to…
to 2446: Spring time
The omitted letters reveal SATURDAY THE TWENTY-NINTH OF FEBRUARY TWENTY TWENTY. First prize Lewis Osborne, Newton Mearns, Glasgow Runners-up G.H.…
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Home At the beginning of the week 319 people in the United Kingdom had been found to be suffering from…
