Latest articles by Holden Frith, The Week UK
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How an Amazonian city that shunned lockdown may have hit herd immunity
Speed Read The authorities in Manaus made little attempt to halt spread of Covid-19 - yet the virus seems to have run out of steam there
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Five reasons coronavirus may be getting less deadly
In Depth Covid-19 infection rates are rising in many countries - but death rates remain low
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The Primodos scandal: why Theresa May is calling for ‘redress’
Speed Read Drug given to pregnant women is thought to have caused a range of birth defects
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Could airport coronavirus testing reduce quarantines?
In Depth Transport secretary downplays possibility of single tests to bypass quarantine
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England and Germany ‘neck-and-neck’ in coronavirus vaccine race
Speed Read Teams at Oxford University and BioNTech are competing to produce the first internationally accepted vaccination for Covid-19
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‘Exam shambles’: mystery as Ofqual removes appeal process
Speed Read Guidelines for affected students deleted hours after being made public
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London’s best fish and seafood restaurants
The Week Recommends Oysters, scallops and new school fish and chips are on the menu
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Coronavirus: why England’s daily death toll is dropping so slowly
Speed Read The explanation lies in both the size of the outbreak and the way that Covid fatalities are measured
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How 2020 exam grades will be calculated
Speed Read Exam cancellations and automated downgrades have led to fears of injustice
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UK and Japan rush to secure trade deal: what is in it?
Speed Read Post-Brexit negotiations about cars, financial services - and whisky - are set to conclude this weekend
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Coronavirus: do Covid-19 tracking apps work?
In Depth The promise that technology would deliver us from the pandemic has not yet been fulfilled
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Coronavirus: ministers blew £150m on unusable masks from British banker
Speed Read Wrong kind of strap blamed for costly PPE procurement blunder
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What we need to do to make track-and-trace work
In Depth New study sets out new goals for the UK’s widely criticised coronavirus contact-tracing system
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Spain ‘secretly lobbied’ US in plan to end UK sovereignty over Gibraltar
Speed Read ‘Aggressive’ campaign sought to build American support for more Spanish control over the outpost
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Why has Nasa launched a mission to Mars?
In Depth The Perseverance rover is looking for evidence of life on the red planet
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Coronavirus: could Britain afford a second lockdown to avoid a second wave?
In Depth Cases are ticking up again in the UK - but few would welcome reintroduction of tough nationwide restrictions
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Coronavirus: are false positive Covid-19 tests skewing infection rate figures?
In Depth Mass testing combined with a low level of genuine cases can lead to misleading results
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Keir Starmer vs. Jeremy Corbyn: how Labour’s civil war could sink the party
In Depth The party may be ‘under new management’ - but the old guard isn’t going quietly
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A year of Boris: how Johnson managed his first 12 months in the job
In Depth From a post-Brexit surge in popularity to the trials of a deadly pandemic
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End of the runway: British Airways drops the Boeing 747
In Depth The ‘queen of the skies’ has been superseded by smaller, more efficient jets
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How Russian hackers went after the world’s coronavirus vaccine secrets
In Depth UK, US and Canada say researchers have come under attack from the Kremlin
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Why everybody’s talking about Chris Grayling and the intelligence committee coup
In Depth The ‘cloak and dagger operation’ could shake loose a long-awaited report into Russian interference in UK politics
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Behind Britain’s ‘shock and awe’ Brexit campaign
In Depth Tourists will be warned of higher costs as businesses told to prepare for more paperwork
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Coronavirus: why antibody rates vary so widely from place to place
In Depth Tests show that likely levels of immunity range from 68% in parts of New York to less than 1% in India
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