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April 21, 2020 12:17 pm Published by Toby Young 49 Comments

The Express leads with the number of healthcare workers who’ve lost their lives to the virus, a story that’s been...

April 20, 2020 11:32 am Published by Toby Young 48 Comments

Terrible news in this morning’s Sun: pubs won’t re-open until Christmas. More bad news elsewhere: according to the Times, Boris...

April 19, 2020 10:50 am Published by Toby Young 29 Comments

Today’s Sunday Times leads with the story that senior ministers have drawn up a three-phase exit plan that would see...

April 18, 2020 11:27 am Published by Toby Young 27 Comments

Today’s FT leads with Andrew Bailey’s corroboration of the OBR’s forecast that the UK’s GDP will decline by 35% in...

April 17, 2020 10:40 am Published by Toby Young 7 Comments

All the broadsheets lead this morning with yesterday’s announcement from Dominic Raab that the lockdown will be extended for at...

April 16, 2020 9:34 am Published by Toby Young 3 Comments

The Times leads this morning with Chris Whitty’s comment at yesterday’s Government press conference that the trend in new infections...

April 15, 2020 5:34 pm Published by Toby Young 6 Comments

The Telegraph, like all the other broadsheets, leads with the OBR’s grim forecast – that the economy could shrink by...

April 6, 2020 10:46 am Published by Toby Young 3 Comments

Does admitting patients suspected of having COVID-19 to hospital increase the spread of the virus? That’s one explanation for why...

April 4, 2020 4:20 pm Published by Toby Young 13 Comments

Generations to come are being saddled with high levels of public and private debt. These things kill, too. If all...

April 4, 2020 4:20 pm Published by Toby Young 110 Comments

One of the paradoxes of the coronavirus crisis is that the need for public scrutiny of government policy has never...