The Week
Letters: Our churches bring comfort – they must reopen
Is ‘the Science’ scientific? Sir: I hope that those in the highest places will have read and will act upon…
Difficult decisions about ending lockdown need Boris’s instinct and judgment
Ending the lockdown will require a leap of faith – one that can really only be made by the PM
Is Bernie Ecclestone the world’s oldest father?
Game on A few things which are still going on, in spite of coronavirus: — Football in Belarus, where the…
How did the ancients cope in a crisis?
When a major crisis strikes in the modern world, the state and international bodies such as the IMF and World…
This is the life I’ve always wanted — social distancing without social disapproval
Week five… which is to say I’ve been self-isolating in the country since 6 March. Meanwhile, engagements which threatened a…
Portrait of the week: Coronavirus hits cabinet, EasyJet grounded and postman soldiers on
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, contracted the coronavirus disease Covid-19, as did Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. The Prince…
Pericles would have approved of the PM’s response to the pandemic
It must be infuriating for those who see the Prime Minister as a prisoner of a rigid elitist mindset that…
How much are people eating during lockdown?
People power Boris Johnson said that the reaction to the coronavirus crisis showed ‘There really is such a thing as…
Letters: Why coronavirus is so hard to investigate
Corona mysteries Sir: John Lee highlights the issue of dying of seasonal flu vs dying of coronavirus when assessing attributable…
Life, of a sort, still goes on in New York City
‘How are you bearing up?’ ‘Is everyone terrified?’ ‘What’s the mood?’ These are the questions concerned family and friends are…
One thing is missing from the government’s coronavirus response: an endgame
The failures of Britain’s pandemic planning have been brutally exposed in the past few weeks. The scandalous lack of protective…
How much food have we really been stockpiling?
Time out When did British workers start being ‘furloughed’? The word furlough is first recorded in the English language in…
Letters: Civilisation will survive coronavirus
Covid questions Sir: I worry that Matt Ridley and others are trying to frighten us about Covid-19 (‘Like nothing we’ve…
Michael Morpurgo: Kale smoothies, writing, Pilates – my strict isolation schedule
Writers like me are used to long hours alone. I’ve never enjoyed that side of it. I don’t like the…
The government must be as ready to remove restrictions as it was to impose them
For days, the Prime Minister had been resisting the kind of measures which have placed many other countries into lockdown,…
Portrait of the week: Salmond cleared, Olympics postponed and Britain told to stay home
Coronavirus Sunday dawned with 233 people in the United Kingdom dead thus far from the coronavirus Covid-19 (a week earlier…
Portrait of the week: Coronavirus hits pubs, offices, sport, the FTSE and Mount Everest
Coronavirus The government asked all people over 70 to cease from social contact for at least 12 weeks in order…
How to be self-sufficient
Those with signs of Covid-19 are being asked to ‘self-isolate’ (Latin insula, ‘island’). But do they have the mindset for…
Sajid Javid: Why can’t my mum buy groceries?
As every Chancellor knows, behind every figure in the Treasury lie thousands of human stories. At times like these, saving…
Where does ‘helicopter money’ come from?
Taking off Who came up with the concept of ‘helicopter money’? — The term is derived from an essay in…
The cure to this crisis can be found in our communities
For the Chancellor to produce an emergency bailout package just six days after delivering his Budget is an extraordinary state…
Letters | 21 March 2020
British science Sir: Dr Fink is right that the UK bats well above its weight through curiosity-driven research (‘Back to…
Coronavirus and the lessons of the Athenian plague
Plagued by the past
Portrait of the week: Panic buying, Budget announcements and farewell to Harry and Meghan
Home At the beginning of the week 319 people in the United Kingdom had been found to be suffering from…
Letters: The BBC licence fee is an anachronism
Musical inspiration Sir: The interview with Antonio Pappano was splendid for those of us who admire him in Australia but…
