coronavirus
Portrait of the week
Home The government lurched uncertainly in dealing with coronavirus. Not all years in primary schools would after all return before…
Life after death
The coronavirus crisis offers theatre a golden opportunity to break free of the structures that have held it back for years, says William Cook
Live and let die
Remember when 2020 was going to be Beethoven year? There were going to be cycles and festivals, recordings and reappraisals;…
Seoul survivors
What’s behind South Korea’s Covid success?
Low life
I walked to the salon in fiery sunshine. Gorgeous, zaftig Elody was wearing a short satin dressing gown of silver…
Travel sickness
The quarantine debacle could cripple British tourism
Letters
Hong Kong’s future Sir: So we have a moral duty to protect the people of Hong Kong and guide them…
Normality won’t return until schools do
From Monday, you will be required by law to wear a face covering on public transport. Paradoxically, this is a…
Quarantine will block more holidays abroad than foreign virus-carriers
All logic suggests that the 14-day quarantine for arrivals from abroad really is, as Michael O’Leary of Ryanair put it,…
The turf
Horse racing, it turns out, wasn’t the first sport back in post-lockdown action: that distinction went to pigeon racing when…
How fast can Britain recover from its economic free-fall?
Putting the UK into lockdown was only going to send growth in one direction: down. While today’s figures from the…
Cuomo and de Blasio’s unearned lap of honor
After weeks of state-mandated lockdown, thousands of preventable nursing home deaths and days of angry protests and looting, New York…
The joy of the drive-by birthday party
It is a relief to parents that young children are allowed out a bit now as the length of the…
Wild life
I used to live in Mogadishu for months at a time, cooped up in compounds behind fortified walls. Venturing on…
New study suggests Covid infections were falling before lockdown
When lockdown was first imposed, there was little science to base it on. The virus was assumed to be growing…
The protests have not ended COVID-19
Remember when peaceful protesters of the economic lockdown were smeared for apparently putting lives at risk by utilizing their First…
Inside the final act of the Brexit drama
The fourth round of official Brexit negotiations resumed on Tuesday, screen-to-screen. They will determine whether the stalemate can be broken…
The government isn’t taking the risk of contact tracing fraud seriously
Experts have a get-out clause of which politicians can only dream when they are speaking from the podium at press briefings.…
America’s riots could be contagious
It’s kind of amazing. For weeks we have been arguing about the minute details of viral transmission. Can you be…
The lethal combination of Brexit and Covid
The combination of Covid-19 and Brexit is a double whammy. The first was a haymaker that hit Britain from nowhere.…
The growing rebellion against quarantine for UK arrivals
The government’s most unpopular policy on its own benches is its plan to make almost everyone arriving in this country…
End the lockdown. Stop the riots
These riots are not just about pent up frustration over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd under the…
Immunity to coronavirus may be far more widespread than thought
Two weeks ago I wrote hereabout a study by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California, which found that…
Cobweb-thin
Hats off to the Lawrence Batley Theatre for producing a brand-new full-length show on-line. Stephen Fry, with avuncular fruitiness, narrates…
Barometer
Site test What’s on offer in the town of Barnard Castle? — Ruined 12th-century castle perched high above the Tees,…
