coronavirus

debate

COVID-positive president won’t debate online

9 October 2020 6:00 pm

The droplets had barely settled after Wednesday’s vice presidential debate when next week’s head-to-head between Donald Trump and Joe Biden…

president

Our overstimulated president

8 October 2020 2:01 am

Is Donald Trump feeling overstimulated? First he scorned stimulus talks with the Democrats, tweeting on Tuesday afternoon that he was…

The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose

7 October 2020 5:00 pm

Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…

trump

The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment

6 October 2020 11:34 pm

What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…

doctors

The hypocritical oath

6 October 2020 9:28 am

‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…

Sunak warns of hardship

6 October 2020 12:05 am

When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…

Prime ministers can’t pick the crises that define them

3 October 2020 9:00 am

In a non-Covid world, next week would be the Tory party conference. Boris Johnson would march on to the stage…

The rise of blocked-off design

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Plexiglass bubbles hover over diners’ heads in restaurants. Plastic pods, spaced six feet apart, separate weightlifters in gyms. Partitions of…

Portrait of the week: Curfew street parties, Trump’s taxes and a bone-eating vulture

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Home More than a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom (three-fifths of the Welsh, a third of the…

The Socratic approach to Covid

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Organs of the press are filled with opinion pages. The sublime confidence about Covid with which commentators advance these opinions,…

Who started America’s presidential debates?

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Word for word US presidential debates are often traced back to the first televised debate, between Richard Nixon and John…

Letters: Lessons for Boris from the classroom

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Lessons for the government Sir: James Forsyth suggests that the Prime Minister wishes to avoid sounding as if he is…

The lockdown battle of Marseilles is a warning for Boris

3 October 2020 9:00 am

From the vantage point of Downing Street, Boris Johnson may feel reassured that the further measures against Covid-19 he imposed…

How much does it cost to save lives from Covid?

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Why has much more been spent on saving lives from Covid than other conditions?

Laurence Fox is a political force to be reckoned with

3 October 2020 9:00 am

From the moment I started criticising the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis people have been urging me to start…

survive enemies

Trump’s enemies badly want him to survive coronavirus

3 October 2020 8:45 am

President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely…

trump campaign

Trump campaign urges staffers exposed to COVID to self-quarantine

3 October 2020 1:33 am

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien sent an email to staff on Friday after President Trump’s positive COVID test, urging them…

Should a Good Citizen snitch on neighbours?

26 September 2020 9:00 am

If neighbours break whatever new Covid rules might soon emerge, it has been suggested that the Good Citizen might snitch…

Whose bright idea was the circuit-breaker?

26 September 2020 9:00 am

It’s electrifying! Who invented the circuit-breaker? Thomas Edison patented it in 1879, realising what damage could be caused to electrical…

In Madagascar, more will starve than die of the virus

26 September 2020 9:00 am

Earlier this month, in his weekly address to the nation, our President, the former DJ and coup leader Andry Rajoelina,…

It’s time for Boris to channel Churchill

26 September 2020 9:00 am

How Boris can get Britain’s Covid fight back on track

The true cost of coronavirus on our economy

26 September 2020 9:00 am

The economic scars of Covid will define the decade

polls

Are the polls worth your attention?

26 September 2020 2:57 am

The polls are predicting Donald Trump will lose in November — again. Is it worth paying them attention? Pollsters have…

The rule of four: how to make sense of Covid case numbers

25 September 2020 8:43 pm

Are Covid cases doubling or not? And if so, in what time frame? If you listened to Boris Johnson and chief scientific…

Rishi Sunak prepares UK economy for 'permanent adjustment'

24 September 2020 10:50 pm

The UK economy is no longer hibernating; it is ‘adjusting’. Today’s measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak are designed to…