Opinion
After two phone conversations in as many days, Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to meet in person in a bid to keep the stalled Brexit trade talks from failing entirely. That rescue mission will take some doing.But on Tuesday there was at least a positive si...
Claims that the Pfizer-BioNTech shot wouldn’t have been approved as quickly in the EU don’t stand up. Ministers are desperate for Brexit victories.Trade talks with the European Union have reached the endgame for real this time. Whether or not a deal is announced in the days ahead, the ou...
One of the first rules of sound parenting is “be consistent.” If you mix your messages, you lose credibility and compliance goes out the window. Something similar applies to governments, which is one reason why Boris Johnson’s five-day Christmas reprieve for England is worrying. Th...
Regulatory authorities are gearing up for a deluge in people reporting side effects when the new Covid-19 vaccines go into use. Even if the vaccines prove safe — a reasonable assumption based on current information — managing the reporting and follow-up of what are known as adverse...
The UK passed the grim number of 50,000 COVID-19 deaths last week, as Britain entered its critical final phase of trade talks with the European Union. One might think this is a terrible time for an overhaul of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior advisory team. But the status quo was becoming...
Some sports stars dazzle on the pitch or earn headlines for their afterhours antics. Others lend their names to good causes. But it’s unusual for a player in his early prime to take on a government as Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has done.In early summer, Rashford’s cam...
Like so many Brexit moments that are telegraphed as decisive, Boris Johnson’s October 15 deadline for a trade deal came and went. That the two sides are still talking points to the core fact of this negotiation: It’s in both of their interests to find agreement.That doesn’t mean a ...
Before he had Covid-19, Brendan Delaney, the 57-year-old chair of medical informatics and decision making at Imperial College, could cycle 150 miles in a day. Covid changed that, but not because he had a severe case of the disease.Delaney never got seriously ill from the virus. Like many healthy peo...
Whenever you hear a policy that touches on pubs in Britain, you know it’s serious. With coronavirus infections and hospitalizations rising, Boris Johnson is preparing new lockdown rules, including shutting down boozers and restaurants in the north of the country. That has sparked a bitter deba...
When Boris Johnson had his breakthrough meeting with then Irish leader Leo Varadkar outside Liverpool in 2019, he had a burning need to strike a Brexit deal and only one major obstacle standing in the way: the Irish border. Faced with either betraying Brexiters in his party, which would have been th...
The painstakingly negotiated Northern Ireland Protocol was the linchpin of the Brexit deal signed by Britain and the European Union last year. So Tuesday’s statement from a U.K. minister that his government is ready to break international law “in a very specific and limited way” in...
Getting English kids back into school this week isn’t just about them. It’s crucial that we repair the damage to educational outcomes, life chances and physical and emotional wellbeing inflicted by months out of the classroom. But this is also about removing a major obstacle to the retur...
Back in April, Britain’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam told a news conference that the UK’s relative performance in combating the coronavirus would become clear only once there were comparative figures on excess mortality (deaths above a five-year average). Shortly afterw...
Winter is coming, but which one? UK. Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged last week that there are two possible scenarios: a mild season on the coronavirus front or a viral blizzard.He’d like Britons to start investing, spending and moving around as if the end of 2020 will be benign. He h...
World
Two decades ago, Poles could only look on in bewilderment. Americans were so divided over who should be president that the 2000 election hung on a dimpled chad and had to be decided by the Supreme Court.George W. Bush became the first winner to lose the national popular vote since 1888. American dem...
It has been a while since I thought back to that week in 2012 when I received news that three close family members had been diagnosed with cancer — two in my household. Newly published figures on how Covid-19 has delayed cancer referrals and treatments brought the memory back. I’m g...
If Britain debates on how to confront its racist history as anti-racism protests rage on Britons wanted a reason to protest against institutional racism, or police brutality, they didn’t have to look 4,000 miles away. There have been plenty of local examples over the years. “I can’...
Immediately after his December election victory, Boris Johnson declared his principle domestic policy objective to be the rebalancing of Britain’s economy, “levelling up” those parts of the UK that have been left behind financially. Recently, speaking in the Baroque splendour of th...
Is there anything short of a major external shock — or a polling meltdown — that could knock Boris Johnson’s Conservatives off course for a comfortable UK parliamentary majority on December 12?On the face of it, an upset seems unlikely. The Tories are leading by about 10 points in ...
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