SANDBROOK

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Boris Johnson is wrong to make a jibe at Margaret Thatcher

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Boris Johnson told the nation on Sunday night: ‘We are going to do it, we are going to do it together’.  From his Downing Street flat, where he is cooped up in isolation, he croaked: ‘One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as Society.’ … Read more

Coronavirus is a deadly wake-up call, writes historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK

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One day, long after the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, historians may see the last few days as the moment when the world tumbled into the abyss. On Thursday, the head of the World Health Organisation declared that mankind stood at a ‘decisive point’. The world faced ‘a crisis, an epidemic that … Read more