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Jonathan Sacks: Joy is the Jewish way of defeating hate

14 March 2020 9:00 am

Last Monday night and Tuesday were our Jewish festival of Purim, when we recall the events described in the Book…

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Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?

13 March 2020 9:53 pm

In a roundabout way, coronavirus may have been responsible for the deaths of two American service personnel and a British…

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EXCLUSIVE: Karlie Kloss’s dad helps Jared with coronavirus ‘research’

13 March 2020 12:37 pm

Jared Kushner has a lot on his plate. The White House senior adviser was tasked this week with conducting research…

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The antidote to virus panic is in the hands of entrepreneurs

13 March 2020 3:43 am

It’s a ghost town,’ said the officer manning the body scanner at Manchester airport — Manchester, New Hampshire, that is,…

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COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda

12 March 2020 11:26 pm

The president delivered an address last night about the Wuhan flu, aka novel coronavirus, aka (if you want to sound…

Trump cannot defeat a virus

12 March 2020 2:07 pm

There are no atheists in foxholes, and no libertarians in a pandemic. As the spread of the COVID-19 virus in…

Why has coronavirus not closed parliament?

12 March 2020 9:34 am

Why hasn’t parliament been closed after Health minister Nadine Dorries contracted coronavirus? Why isn’t the government demanding the cancellation of…

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Coronavirus’s first victim? Money

12 March 2020 7:34 am

The first victim of war, they say, is truth. The first victim of coronavirus, by contrast, is fiscal discipline. Yesterday,…

The corona stimulus shows we've learned the lessons of the crash

11 March 2020 9:38 pm

The Bank of England hasn’t wasted time getting in front of the coronavirus, and its actions this morning show how…

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Market hysteria is not all down to coronavirus

10 March 2020 6:07 am

Is this really about a virus? Oil has plunged 30 percent, the S&P Index seven percent. What is happening on…

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Donald Trump’s ‘hunch’ about coronavirus is likely correct

8 March 2020 3:43 am

Donald Trump is in the soup again, this time for appearing to reject the World Health Organisation’s estimate for the death…

Nick Robinson: Am I a superspreader?

7 March 2020 9:00 am

‘Aren’t you meant to be in quarantine?’ the man in the cloakroom queue asks. I sense that his enquiry is…

Italians believe the coronavirus outbreak shows their superiority

7 March 2020 9:00 am

During times of contagion, you begin to understand why fascist salutes were once so popular. The foot-tap is replacing the…

My night in A&E left me worried about the NHS’s coronavirus response

7 March 2020 9:00 am

I wish I shared the Prime Minister’s confidence about the ability of the NHS to cope with coronavirus. ‘I have…

Portrait of the week: Coronavirus plans, Boris’s baby and Priti Patel under fire

7 March 2020 9:00 am

Home After a Cobra emergency meeting about the coronavirus Covid-19, when the number of cases in the United Kingdom had…

A meditation on death

7 March 2020 9:00 am

Gstaad   I shoulda been a weatherman: no sooner had I announced snow to be a Gstaad rarity than it…

A guide to coronavirus hoarding

7 March 2020 9:00 am

We have now got past the absurd stage of glaring in a reproachful manner at Chinese people on the tube.…

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Coronavirus is Bernie Sanders’s running mate

7 March 2020 4:11 am

Donald Trump claimed his response to the coronavirus could ‘help, not hurt’ him in the 2020 election, but Cockburn suspects…

Beware the super-spreaders of coronavirus conspiracy theories

2 March 2020 2:28 am

When a new virus is discovered, conspiracy theories often spread faster than the disease. I’ve been following the debate in…

Could coronavirus really trigger the next crash?

1 March 2020 1:30 am

It’s a bloodbath in the markets, but by how much could the real, global economy be affected by the coronavirus…

Portrait of the week: Weinstein convicted, Harry and Meghan answer back, and coronavirus spreads in Europe

29 February 2020 9:00 am

Home The government told Britons returning from 11 quarantined towns in northern Italy to isolate themselves, for fear of spreading…

Coronavirus is a chance to buy cheaper – but it comes with a health warning

29 February 2020 9:00 am

If anything, stock markets have been slow to respond to the spreading coronavirus outbreak. Stories of Chinese supply interruptions, from…

The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria

29 February 2020 9:00 am

The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria

Is it possible to have a touch of coronavirus?

29 February 2020 9:00 am

Nice of the NHS to send an advisory text about coronavirus, because I was wondering. Is it possible to have…

What do elbows have to do with fighting coronavirus?

29 February 2020 9:00 am

Before the Covid-19 scare I never thought that one particular Spanish proverb would come in useful. It goes: ‘Los ojos…