Coronavirus

The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Welcome to 2023, the year of war, peace and Mark Zuckerberg’s collapsing Metaverse

People may want someone or something to blame for Covid. But we have to get used to the idea of just living with it

For Beijing’s leaders, globalisation is no longer an opportunity but a weapon

Authorities initially dismissed the link between Covid and a loss of smell and taste - until they couldn't. Now, a deeply disconcerting experience for millions has prompted a rush of research that will have benefits for the future

A Michelin-starred underwater restaurant is working wonders for a small coastal community in Norway

The cost of living crisis, airline chaos and concerns over the environment mean pre-pandemic tourist numbers remain a distant prospect in Tunisia

Experts reveal what they would like to see in Baroness Hallett’s independent public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic

Downing Street parties have proven the final straw for lifelong Tory voter Tony Blackburn

From climate change to Covid and now the Ukraine war. Everyone is feeling anxious – can we cope with any more?

The prime minister has no defence and no moral compass. Will his party finally act?

The prime minister and Rishi Sunak are being fined for breaking Covid rules… but don’t count on either resigning

It's not the one who lives in The White House. Meet the podcast host who can say what he likes about Covid, race and conspiracies without any comeback

Lady Bamford arranged for her butler to hand-deliver organic food boxes to Number 10 during lockdowns

The school has had a role in shaping British public life for the worse, writes one reader

Despite a £40.4m government contract to supply plastic test tubes, Alex Bourne notched up a £709,000 loss last year

An intensive care consultant retraces the NHS’s painful journey through Covid – and explains why he is more worried than the Johnson government about what may lie ahead

The same day Putin's invasion began, Karneval was due to start, and it did. But, it soon changed into Germany's largest demonstration for Ukraine so far

Lifting restrictions early may have given Boris Johnson a break from Partygate, but the decision clouds come back to haunt him

Almost every other country in Europe has better statutory sick pay than the UK. But forcing ill workers into the workplace is bad for productivity and the economy at large

After failing to become head of the NHS, she began drawing up plans for a three-tier stone amphitheatre-style seating area in the garden of her £2m Grade II listed North Somerset estate. But, she spent her own money this time, and not the taxpayer's

At least 40,000 pigs have been culled and their meat wasted because Brexit has led to a lack of butchers to process them

When is the right time for a literary response to the Covid pandemic?

Her Partygate update has ended the prime minister’s bounceback and put his future back in serious doubt

Why have we forgotten about the moral case for tighter Covid restrictions? Asks one reader.

Boris Johnson finally breaks his silence on THAT party only to prove once again that the truth is the first casualty when you seek to remake the world in your image.

The world's eyes are on the Park Hotel in the wake of the Novak Djokovic fiasco. Can refugee advocates use the situation to their advantage?

Boris Johnson’s motivations for avoiding an Omicron lockdown are all bad, but that doesn’t make him the equivalent of Meryl Streep’s president in Don’t Look Up.

Buffeted by the pandemic, Eurostar faced collapse. With little thanks to the UK government, this link to the continent is revived.

WILL SELF on the naming of the Omicron variant.

Don't laugh. The sight of someone called Allegra laughing it up about cheese and wine on a day that 608 people were drawing their last breaths in UK hospitals from Coronavirus should make us all sick.

As a new variant hits, Austrians are once again dealing with the strangeness of life behind closed doors.