Dominic Raab today unveiled a massive £75 million repatriation plan to bring back ‘tens of thousands’ of Britons stranded abroad because of the coronavirus crisis. The Foreign Secretary said the UK government will now step in to provide ‘special charter flights’ from parts of the world where commercial flights are no longer in operation. The … Read more
Dominic Raab today unveiled a massive £75 million repatriation plan to bring back ‘tens of thousands’ of Britons stranded abroad because of the coronavirus crisis. The Foreign Secretary said the UK government will now step in to provide ‘special charter flights’ from parts of the world where commercial flights are no longer in operation. The … Read more
Mao Zedong, invented a term for ‘reactionaries’ in the West who made threats against his regime. He called them ‘paper tigers’ — the ancient Chinese word is zhilaohu. What Mao (whose vast portrait still looms over Beijing’s Tiananmen Square) meant was that we, to use an equally colourful English expression, were all mouth and no … Read more
Now No10 chief Dominic Cummings goes into self-isolation with coronavirus symptoms – days after Boris Johnson tested positive By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 10:30 BST, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 10:36 BST, 30 March 2020 Dominic Cummings has gone into self-isolation after developing coronavirus symptoms over the weekend, it was revealed today. … Read more
As so often in her 68-year reign, the Queen gets it right. In her statement to the country (and the Commonwealth) last week on meeting the challenge of the coronavirus, the monarch did not once use the word ‘war’. There was just the suggestive phrase ‘I am reminded that our nation’s history has been forged … Read more
Downing Street fury over ‘let OAPs die’ accusation: No 10 angrily denies claims that Dominic Cummings said pensioners should be sacrificed to coronavirus to protect the economy By Larisa Brown Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 02:06 GMT, 23 March 2020 Downing Street last night angrily denied claims … Read more
Downing Street fury over ‘let OAPs die’ accusation: No 10 angrily denies claims that Dominic Cummings said pensioners should be sacrificed to coronavirus to protect the economy By Larisa Brown Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 00:25 GMT, 23 March 2020 Downing Street last night angrily denied claims … Read more
Boris Johnson looks shattered. The bags under his eyes have bags of their own. This is unsurprising: he is where the buck stops in dealing with a public health crisis on a scale not seen in this country for generations. There is an additional reason, I suspect, for his mental turmoil. Inexorably, pressure is increasing … Read more