Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care
The Prime Minister has this evening been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital. After being moved on…
Prime Minister taken into intensive care
In the past few minutes, Downing Street has announced that Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’…
Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for coronavirus tests
Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests after having a continuous temperature for 10 days since testing positive…
Portrait of the week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, contracted the coronavirus disease Covid-19, as did Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. The Prince…
Needs must
It must be infuriating for those who see the Prime Minister as a prisoner of a rigid elitist mindset that…
Barometer
People power Boris Johnson said that the reaction to the coronavirus crisis showed ‘There really is such a thing as…
Frightened people love their leaders
‘The Trump presidency is over’, said Peter Wehner, in the Atlantic. The great wizards of liberal punditry stroked their beards…
Why the coronavirus crisis could peak sooner than expected
The government is adjusting to the reality of dealing with the coronavirus crisis, while three of its most important figures…
Boris’s coronavirus pragmatism is confounding his critics
If ever Britain has undergone a period of authoritarian socialism, then this is surely it. Massive state intervention in the…
How will this ‘war’ change us?
In the past ten days we have seen the greatest expansion of state power in British history. The state has…
On liberty
For days, the Prime Minister had been resisting the kind of measures which have placed many other countries into lockdown,…
France’s downward spiral of coronavirus repression
In France there is a palpable sense of administrative and political panic in how to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.…
A test of trust
We are in a make-or-break moment for trust, not just in this government but in the British state itself. The…
Rishi Sunak’s wartime economy
At least no one can say it isn’t bold. The United States is fiddling around with some possible cuts to…
Our politicians are only trying to do their best
This is a time for generosity and kindness; a moment for the cutting of slack and the making of allowances.…
UK quarantines elderly as over-70s told: stay at home
People over 70 will be instructed by the government to stay in strict isolation at home or in care homes…
Washington is furious at Boris’s Huawei bid
Boris Johnson faced his first major rebellion of the new parliament on Tuesday. Parliamentarians are waking up to the fact…
The great Tory Budget giveaway
It’s always tempting for governments to respond to economic trouble with a debt-fuelled spending splurge, but it’s a notoriously blunt…
Inside the relationship between politicians and the media
Global system breakdown has defined all our lives for 13 years. From the banking system’s boom and bust to the…
The unbearable lightness of Boris Johnson
Months ago, not long after Boris Johnson’s 2019 general election triumph, I wrote a Times column of a cautiously hopeful…
The Budget’s corona contagion
When Sajid Javid resigned in a row with No. 10, there was much speculation about what would be in the…
Brevity goes a long way
The PM is insisting that the briefings he finds in his red box every evening should be, well, brief, and…
Le crunch
Two irreconcilable versions of Brexit are about to collide
Trade talks between the UK and the EU are heading for a blow-up
‘The reality is the talks will blow up shortly’. As I say in the Sun this morning, this is the…
