coronavirus
Covid’s metamorphoses
Is the lockdown causing more harm than good?
Low life
Once a week we break French emergency law and have a friend round for drinks on the terrace. The terrace…
We can’t stop here, this is Biden Country
One of the most eye-popping coronavirus containment measures instituted anywhere in the country can currently be found in the small,…
Dear politicians, life must go on
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
We’ll get a fairly detailed plan from the PM next week encouraging businesses to start operating again, public transport to…
China’s COVID cover-up shows it can’t be trusted
‘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
Vladimir Putin is observing the old adage that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. With the…
Why are Republicans afraid of vote-by-mail?
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…
The changes to come in the post-COVID world order
The Democrats are taking their stand on the coronavirus crisis in an untenable position. It is like building a defensive…
Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?
Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…
Chris Cuomo’s coronavirus circus
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has perfected COVID-19 performance art. While other attention seekers declare proudly that they’re ‘pretty sure’ they…
Disinfectant Donnie
Do you know what the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is? No, not the fauxtraged shrieks of liberals at everything the…
Ten lessons we’ve learned from the lockdown so far
Yep, the end is in sight, courtesy of other countries organising the practicalities for the return to some sort of…
Our impatience will end the lockdown
At the farm shop this morning there was a chap panic-buying a large metal and plaster flamingo. It was the…
Chinese diplomat’s Covid-19 PR exercise backfires
As countries around the world try to work out a way to live with coronavirus, there’s a growing hostility towards…
Comedian’s notebook
Empathy and kindness in these difficult times come more easily to some than others, but I’m trying. I had heart…
Letters
The closing of churches Sir: Stephen Hazell-Smith is quite right in writing that churches should re-open (Letters, 18 April), however…
Furlough
In July, in its ‘Guess the definition’ slot, next to the day’s birthdays, the Daily Mail asked its readers to…
Real problems erase fake ones
Last week, a friend quoted a two-year-old email of mine: ‘I’m starting to root for a plague or world war…
The case for trust
Our Plan is entirely new, comprising – 1. The whole News of the Week: selected, sifted, condensed and arranged as…
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…
Half of Americans want their state to sue China for coronavirus damages
Public opinion is rapidly turning against China as and intelligence agencies have exposed the full extent of the communist state’s…
Why are people taking Trump’s disinfectant comments seriously?
Every time you think Donald Trump has lost his talent for making people’s heads explode, he somehow excels himself. His…
If austerity is off the table, how do we pay for Covid-19 costs?
What is the true cost of Covid-19? No one knows – yet. But it’s not going to be cheap. The…
