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Corona just means crown. We use the word for things that have, or seem to have, a crown. There’s a corona around the sun. There’s a corona a...

It’s always good to have a laugh, isn’t it? Laughter’s the great natural therapy for humans, in the state technically known to psychiatrists...

In my previous post about the strange case of the Bill Gates conspiracy theory, I talked about those curious aspects of it that are, when a...

We’re emerging here in Valencia. Slowly. With a little optimism. We’ve moved into phase 2 of the Lockdown relaxation process. With some j...

The face of day 13: John Bercow. One of the great Commons speakers. We shall learn to miss him. After several days of having Parliament ...

Day 9 of BoJo’s coup, and the wheels have really come off the Borismobile. His first three parliamentary votes as Prime Minister all went ...

It’s day 8 of the Boris coup, and our hero, chief of the Downing Street junta, has suffered his first setback. A fine setback, too. The ve...

Confidence is surging in the Downing Street junta on Day 6 of the Boris coup. Indeed, Boris Johnson is so sure of himself that he’s decide...

Day 5 of the Boris coup coincides with the eightieth anniversary of the day German tanks rolled across the Polish border, on 1 September 193...

Day 4 of BoJo’s coup dawns bright and fair. We find cracks appearing even in the ruling junta. Sajid Javid, Chancellor of the Exchequer, i...