coronavirus
The turf
Asked, after his Imperial Aura’s impressive win in the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, if he…
World of difference
What will post-coronavirus economies and societies look like?
Dear Mary
Q. Mary, what percentage of cleaners’ normal wages should we pay them when they can’t come in for the foreseeable…
We’re anything but safe
Comically, Chinese Communist party officials have speculated that Covid-19 was planted by the US army. Yet a respectable conspiracy theorist…
Healthy debate
One of the paradoxes of the coronavirus crisis is that the need for public scrutiny of government policy has never…
Barometer
People power Boris Johnson said that the reaction to the coronavirus crisis showed ‘There really is such a thing as…
Swede freedom
There’s no lockdown in sight here
Real life
The spaniel curled up in her basket with one of my shoes, one of his socks and a packet of…
The XR files
Extinction Rebellion sees coronavirus as an ‘opportunity’
Low life
With my signed and dated laissez-passer in my pocket, I trotted down to the village to see if I could…
High life
Look at it this way: we’re all doing Desert Island Discs nowadays, and unless you’ve got the bug, it’s a…
Lower house prices and cheaper fuel will help recovery
The suspension of the residential property market is disheartening for those who were hoping to buy a first flat or…
Don’t let anyone tell you there’s a war on
‘Shut up — don’t you know there’s a war on?’ Strong hints of that attitude have emerged in recent weeks,…
Letters
Corona mysteries Sir: John Lee highlights the issue of dying of seasonal flu vs dying of coronavirus when assessing attributable…
Diary
‘How are you bearing up?’ ‘Is everyone terrified?’ ‘What’s the mood?’ These are the questions concerned family and friends are…
A world apart
Holed up in her sixth-floor London flat, Laura Freeman finds solace in the art of the hermit
Coronomics
The crash is surreal – and ordinary remedies won’t be enough
The truth behind ‘do not resuscitate’ orders
Coronavirus is revealing many good things about our society: the number of people willing to volunteer to help tackle the outbreak…
Coronavirus could hasten secession
Americans enjoyed a tremendous sense of solidarity in the days following 9/11. People gathered on street corners, at subway stops,…
Jews have always been blamed for plagues – coronavirus is no different
History has not usually been kind to the Jews. But even by its low and morbid standards, the 14th century…
Liberté, égalité and fraternité are being put to the test in France
When I left my apartment for my morning run today I saw that someone had scrawled on the courtyard in…
A Brexit delay could last longer than you think
Here’s something Brexiteers might want to keep an eye on. While the country’s attention is welded to the Tesco delivery…
Life and death in New York City
No matter where in the apartment I am, if I sit very still, I hear a siren. Over the 18…
How delaying the DNC helps Biden
Joe Biden keeps getting more unconventional. It started when he delivered short speeches and one-word answers like ‘yes’ or ‘no’.…
How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?
The world as we have known it for the past 40 years has come to a stop. We have a…
