The cases reported yesterday were 5,526, with the deaths at 888. This brings the total, officially recognised cases to 114,217, with 15,464 hospital patients dead – and many more besides. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times insight team is on the case, offering a detailed...
Sadiq Khan calls for post-Brexit transition period extension
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has criticised UK negotiator David Frost’s decision to rule out a delay to the transition period, Mr Khan believes the EU needs to recover from coronavirus first. The UK’s chief Brexit negotiator said an extension to the transition...
Coronavirus: an app too far
Although the grandstanding Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet, has had a good epidemic – in the sense that people used to talk about having a good "war" – I actually prefer the more measured approach of the British Medical Journal. It seems to have a far...
Coronavirus: the epidemic we deserve
A paper in early February on the spread of Covid-19 in China published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) noted that 41 percent of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that...
Stephen Booth: The UK and EU should agree a deal this year. The implementation period is the tricky part.
Stephen Booth is Head of the Britain in the World Project at Policy Exchange. Brexit may have been relegated from the front pages but it certainly hasn’t gone away. There is increasing speculation that, due to the disruption caused by the Coronavirus crisis, an...
Coronavirus: screening the noise
It is interesting (if that is the right word) to see that the Guardian and other newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times, are having serious financial problems.These are so serious that they are having to cut back on non-editorial staff and...
Frost and Barnier Agree UK-EU FTA Timetable
Frost and Barnier Agree UK-EU FTA Timetable Post-Brexit negotiations are continuing at pace with David Frost and Michel Barnier conducting a “constructive” video call this afternoon, where they agreed three new week-long rounds of negotiations for the UK’s...
Patrick Hall: This outbreak is a deadly reminder that we must up our game on biosecurity
Patrick Hall is a researcher at Bright Blue. During the past few weeks, the global Coronavirus pandemic has shown us how vulnerable we all are to the spread of biological threats in a globalised world. Biological threats include disease outbreak and deliberate...
Coronavirus: a process not an event
When it comes to the Covid-19 epidemic, if they are content merely to trot out the daily statistics on cases and deaths, accepting them uncritically from official sources, then neither newspapers nor broadcasters can claim to be a "news" service. All they are doing is...
Coronavirus: a lack of preparation (again)
Anyone who has been tracking Brexit over the years has learnt to accept that the media, in general, is issue illiterate and largely ignorant on the detail of the functioning of the European Union. And I cannot honestly say that any media organ has got to grips with...
