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COVID-19 and the end of clinical medicine as we know it
Governments are producing a series of contradictory and confusing policies which have a brief shelf life as the next crisis emerges
Disney’s Mulan is everything Xi Jinping could wish for
Profit can trump principle because the Chinese market is big and Western consumers are apathetic
Why is the UN preaching about COVID and the patriarchy?
In reality, COVID-19 shows us nothing other than that a very nasty virus can be fatal to old and sick people
It’s time for the West to ditch its Russian playbook
Western values and interests are not reconcilable with those of the Russian state
The COVID trap: will society ever open up again?
A ‘temporary’ expansion of government power is hard to reverse
Macron’s battle against the forces of French anarchy
Deep feelings of insecurity, a loss of identity and a tradition of rebellion all make for a powerful cocktail
Navalny’s poisoning has shown the emptiness of German diplomacy
Merkel was quick to decouple the status of Nord Stream 2 from the attack on Navalny
Europe’s ‘second wave’ has fizzled out
New cases are now declining in Germany, and Sweden, and remaining flat in Italy, Ireland and Belgium
We may be closer to herd immunity than previously thought
Are we fearing a ‘second wave’ which our immune systems already have well in hand?
The problem with fast-tracking vaccines
It can have disastrous effects — even if the shots work
Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Jared Kushner. Seriously!
He disrupted the old Middle East paradigm to get results
Did Erdogan order his generals to sink a Greek warship?
One day you’re competing for gas at the bottom of the sea, the next day you’re sending each other’s soldiers there
Putin’s culture war
Putin is trying to mobilize the so-called Great Patriotic War in his drive to assert his country’s greatness
Coronavirus cases are mounting in Europe but deaths remain stable. Why?
We appear to have the reality of viral circulation
Why Navalny may not be a friend of the West
He has never made any attempt to hide his Russian nationalist sympathies
Germany’s far-right and the rise of the anti-corona protests
The founder of the group that organized Saturday’s protest has sought to distance himself from extremists
France has partly seen sense on face masks
But to see someone on the streets in Paris without a mask has become increasingly rare in recent weeks
Who could replace Shinzo Abe as Japanese PM?
Abe had hoped that 2020 would be his year
Putin prepares to send in the troops
Putin has no affection for Lukashenko, a man who for years played Russia against the EU
Leaked letter: Boris Johnson rejects Trump on Iran sanctions
The UK is siding with France and Germany at the UN
Greece vs Turkey: tensions are rising in the Mediterranean
The two countries are locked in a battle for hegemony
The coronavirus immunity riddle
Our bodies’ defenses work in ways we still don’t understand
Has this Brazilian city reached herd immunity without lockdown?
Perhaps it is time for governments to start looking at real world evidence, rather than just models
The paradox of Israeli peace
UAE-Israel relations are a process, not the start of a revolution
Dying of COVID vs dying with COVID
Swedish authorities are trying to find the answer
