Like Thomas Cromwell, Dominic Cummings will fall. Until then, how much damage can he do?

The route to demi-fascism doesn’t necessarily involve tanks on the streets. When a population is indifferent to the threat, it can come by stealth, writes Matthew Norman

The gravest danger to liberty is the one that attracts the least attention (PA)

The classics scholar in Downing Street knows this already but the etymology behind the plague du jour’s name is this.

Under a microscope the virus resembles a crown, the Latin for which is corona.

You don’t need a microscope to identify that there are two coronaviruses creeping this way from China. Which one will prove deadlier, the literal or metaphorical, won’t be apparent for a while.