Author Archives for Toby Young

How Have We Responded to Previous Pandemics?

May 27, 2020 5:13 pm Published by Toby Young 6 Comments

As we tot up the unintended consequences of lockdowns across the world, it’s worth bearing in mind that the quarantining...

May 26, 2020 6:29 pm Published by Toby Young 764 Comments

Did Dominic Cummings’s press conference in the Downing Street rose garden yesterday succeed in taking the heat out of whether...

May 25, 2020 6:49 pm Published by Toby Young 727 Comments

One story dominates the news and it isn’t “English Tourism Week“, which started today. The Prime Minister’s efforts to draw...

May 24, 2020 6:28 pm Published by Toby Young 534 Comments

The Observer drops the second shoe in the Cummings scandal on its front page – the news that he visited...

May 23, 2020 6:29 pm Published by Toby Young 714 Comments

The Guardian has splashed with a humdinger of a story today, revealing that Dominic Cummings drove 264 miles from his...

May 22, 2020 5:01 pm Published by Toby Young 783 Comments

Today’s Telgraph says a majority of the Cabinet want Boris to accelerate the timetable for ending the lockdown. Boris Johnson...

May 21, 2020 5:18 pm Published by Toby Young 605 Comments

Good story on the Mail‘s front page today. But is it true? According to the paper, Boris has set a...

May 20, 2020 4:52 pm Published by Toby Young 554 Comments

The Telegraph‘s Business section leads on Rishi Sunack’s warning to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee yesterday that the...

May 19, 2020 6:42 pm Published by Toby Young 590 Comments

The row over school openings rumbles on. The Mail cites ‘‘evidence from 22 countries on the continent” at an EU...

May 18, 2020 5:55 pm Published by Toby Young 581 Comments

The Guardian leads this morning with the latest woes over the NHS’s contact-tracing app. The message about there being a...