Two big gaps in Boris Johnson's lockdown statement
There were three messages in Boris Johnson’s address to the nation, and quite a lot of important gaps. The messages…
Do antibodies deliver immunity to coronavirus?
Assume an alert flashes on your NHSX Covid-19 tracking app that you’ve been in contact with someone who has the…
Is the PM an example of why those with Covid-19 should be hospitalised earlier?
There is so much to ponder in the prime minister’s interview about how Covid-19 almost killed him. But, in respect…
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…
The viral transmission rate will be key to relaxing the lockdown
The next big event in the saga (I choose my words carefully) of our Covid-19 lockdown is the preliminary results…
The scientists are now running the country
What we learned on Thursday is that, at least while the Prime Minister is convalescing, the boffins of the government’s…
The nerve-wracking task of governing without the PM
I had been puzzling about why for most of the past 12 days, until last night, the PM and his…
What will a coronavirus 'exit strategy' look like?
At the daily press briefings of senior ministers, the medical and the scientific advisers, there is a reluctance to talk…
The heartbreaking decisions doctors are preparing to face
In recent days, I have had more than enough upsetting conversations with doctors to last a lifetime. About how they…
Coronavirus can help us confront the uncomfortable truth about death
In recent years, I’ve been thinking about the right way to die, having been with my late wife Sian Busby…
The lethal ambiguities in the 'stay at home' coronavirus advice
There are still potentially lethal ambiguities in the government’s coronavirus advice about who should go to work; such is the…
Boris had little choice but to impose a coronavirus crackdown
Very few of us alive thought we would ever hear a prime minister of the United Kingdom, with its centuries…
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…
What the government doesn't yet know about the coronavirus
I understand a bit more than I did about what the prime minister, the chief medical officer Chris Whitty and…
The price we'll pay for halting coronavirus
As I have repeatedly mentioned, the view of the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, which has shaped the Government’s response…
China's coronavirus victory might be short-lived
I’ve just been talking to a Government official about ‘how the market is being sounded out’ about the cost and…
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…
Will Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings be knocked off course by Sir Philip Rutnam’s resignation?
There are a handful of big things to watch out for following Sir Philip Rutnam’s resignation as Home Office Permanent Secretary:…
Are we heading for a no-deal Brexit in January 2021?
There is a recurring and important phrase in the 36-page document published this morning setting out “the UK’s approach to…
Boris Johnson’s Blairism is bamboozling Labour
Is Boris Johnson the Blairite who may not speak his name? All the PM’s talk of levelling up rather than levelling down?…
Why Huawei may be allowed in the UK 5G network
Brandon Lewis, the security minister, is something of a genius at winsomely saying next to nothing. Even so I emerged…
On Brexit, no one quite knows where Boris is taking us
I am not going to lie: I am bored sick with Brexit. Like so many of you, I have become…
Boris Johnson will block the Brexit transition being extended in law
Those who thought Boris Johnson would exploit his huge majority to be flexible on the end-2020 deadline for negotiating a…
The three ‘C’s’ that explain Boris’s historic election win
This was an election as important and as divisive for the UK as Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979. Vast numbers…
Could this be the defining moment of the election campaign?
An interview earlier today with my colleague Joe Pike captures the contradiction at the heart of Boris Johnson’s campaign. He…
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