coronavirus

Livestream-hopping is just as irritating as being at a real festival

2 May 2020 9:00 am

The ghost of Samuel Beckett oversaw the Hip Hop Loves NY livestream last Thursday night. Time and time again its…

What the Queen will miss most in self-isolation

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Seven hundred pages of memoir is stretching it a bit even for an ex-inhabitant of No. 10 with David Cameron’s…

How many 100th birthday cards does the Queen send?

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Multiplying by hundreds The Queen penned a personal 100th birthday message to Captain Tom Moore, who has raised money for…

I’m imposing a one-woman trade embargo on China

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Without making any efforts in that direction, I now know all about a certain telecom firm’s future business plans. My…

The night I danced with Ginger Rogers

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Gstaad   When indolence becomes intolerable, remembrances of things past become a lifesaver. Charles Moore’s SpectatorNotes also helps. His recent…

Boris has found a path out of lockdown – but it won’t be smooth

2 May 2020 9:00 am

The route out of lockdown won’t be smooth – or fast

The NHS has been protected – care homes have not

2 May 2020 9:00 am

As the NHS was preparing for the Covid onslaught, thousands of hospital patients were discharged to care homes in an…

‘Social distance shaming’ is getting nasty

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Rudeness is spreading like a virus

Can Putin survive the coronavirus stress test?

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Coronavirus is a double whammy for his regime

If this is a war, let’s fight it like one

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Under the cloud of conformity that has settled over the land as a replacement for air pollution, heretics who doubt…

Do we really want to go back to normal?

2 May 2020 9:00 am

On the day our A-level exams began some wit wrote on the blackboard: ‘I wasted time, and now doth time…

Is this the end of commuting?

2 May 2020 9:00 am

The brother of a friend in Durban was once given a generous donation by a wealthy aunt. ‘I hate to…

Could the lockdown have side-effects no one has considered?

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Is the lockdown causing more harm than good?

How the French view their weekly clap for carers

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Once a week we break French emergency law and have a friend round for drinks on the terrace. The terrace…

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We can’t stop here, this is Biden Country

2 May 2020 6:45 am

One of the most eye-popping coronavirus containment measures instituted anywhere in the country can currently be found in the small,…

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Dear politicians, life must go on

1 May 2020 9:35 pm

The worst day of my childhood was in 1995 when my father lost his job. He worked close by as…

How the lockdown could be modified

1 May 2020 4:35 pm

We’ll get a fairly detailed plan from the PM next week encouraging businesses to start operating again, public transport to…

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China’s COVID cover-up shows it can’t be trusted

1 May 2020 1:55 am

‘Hide your capacities, bide your time’, China’s former leader, Deng Xiaoping, famously once said. Few in the West understood what…

Covid-19 is testing Putin's regime

30 April 2020 1:12 am

Vladimir Putin is observing the old adage that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. With the…

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Why are Republicans afraid of vote-by-mail?

29 April 2020 2:29 am

Republicans are afraid of voting by mail in November. So is President Trump — which could cost him the 2020 election. The days are ticking by…

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The changes to come in the post-COVID world order

29 April 2020 12:58 am

The Democrats are taking their stand on the coronavirus crisis in an untenable position. It is like building a defensive…

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Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?

28 April 2020 2:01 am

Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…

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COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance

27 April 2020 9:04 pm

If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…

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Chris Cuomo’s coronavirus circus

27 April 2020 8:55 am

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has perfected COVID-19 performance art. While other attention seekers declare proudly that they’re ‘pretty sure’ they…

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Disinfectant Donnie

26 April 2020 4:26 am

Do you know what the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is? No, not the fauxtraged shrieks of liberals at everything the…