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May 2020
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- May 29th
- Wine-lovers sniff opportunity online
- Instant Opinion: Boris Johnson ‘sacrificed too much’ for Dominic Cummings
- Barbers to pubs: as lockdown eases what’s allowed - and what isn’t?
- Reaction: Dominic Cummings to keep job as police say he did break lockdown rules
- 52 ideas that changed the world - 49. Ecology
- Donald Trump: should social media companies fact check the president?
- Coronavirus: what we know and what we need to learn as we exit lockdown
- The Week Unwrapped: Seasonless fashion, sacred land and Saudi Magpies
- May 28th
- Quiz of The Week: 23 - 29 May
- What will life in Hong Kong be like under China’s new security law?
- Instant Opinion: under questioning Boris Johnson is a ‘blundering schoolboy’
- The country that burned masks: inside France’s coronavirus response
- Reaction: 61 Tory MPs defy Boris Johnson’s call to ‘move on’ from Cummings scandal
- May 27th
- Why everyone’s talking about Newcastle United’s Saudi takeover
- High drama: India and China brawl in the Himalayas
- Reaction: Boris Johnson plummets in polls as Tory MPs turn on Dominic Cummings
- Instant Opinion: it is time for powerful political advisers to ‘come out of the shadows’
- How powerful is Dominic Cummings - and does Boris Johnson need him?
- The Week Unwrapped bonus episode: 25 Years of The Week
- May 26th
- The best lockdown workout equipment
- Coronavirus: how contact tracing helped Germany out of lockdown
- ‘Project Birch’: behind the government plan to take stakes in key British industries
- Instant Opinion: Dominic Cummings’ contempt ‘makes the public feel like fools’
- Dominic Cummings: five unanswered questions about the Durham lockdown breach
- Reaction: Dominic Cummings ‘refuses to resign or apologise’ after lockdown breach
- May 22nd
- How coronavirus broke Britain’s universities
- Instant Opinion: NHS migrant dispute shows government is both ‘cruel and useless’
- ‘This is the end of Hong Kong’: behind China’s security crackdown
- 52 ideas that changed the world - 48. Fashion
- Reaction: Boris Johnson U-turns on surcharge for NHS migrant workers
- The Week Unwrapped: Skin hunger, Taiwan and the University of Zoom
- May 21st
- Quiz of The Week: 16 - 22 May
- Swedo-science: has Sweden’s coronavirus experiment failed?
- Instant Opinion: pride in Britain’s past ‘not matched by vision for its future’
- Why Donald Trump is likely to lose the 2020 election
- UK’s Covid timeline: key dates in the pandemic
- UK’s Covid timeline: key dates in the pandemic
- Reaction: world responds as global coronavirus cases pass 5 million
- May 20th
- Instant Opinion: No. 10 worried as Britain ‘not going on a summer holiday’
- How coronavirus has bolstered Taiwan’s independence movement
- What is the future of Israel-Palestine relations as Netanyahu pushes to annex West Bank?
- Coronavirus: why has the UK contact-tracing app been delayed?
- Reaction: councils and unions to defy government over school reopenings
- Coronavirus class divide: the jobs most at risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19
- May 19th
- Could a ‘federal Britain’ have beaten coronavirus?
- Instant Opinion: is Boris Johnson ‘afraid of parliamentary scrutiny’?
- Which countries have gained the most weight in lockdown?
- Why did UK take so long to introduce quarantining - and does it work?
- Reaction: ‘air bridges’ give Brits hope of holidays abroad
- May 18th
- Why everyone’s talking about Donald Trump’s ‘deep state’ sacking
- No lockdown, little testing, few deaths: why Japan is a coronavirus outlier
- Instant Opinion: ‘women the stronger sex’ in coronavirus crisis
- Coronavirus: is it safe to reopen schools?
- Will UK see a post-coronavirus surge in preventable deaths?
- Reaction: Conservative immigration bill would ‘bar low-skilled workers’
- May 15th
- The fatal viruses that the world has learned to live with
- Instant Opinion: the time to ‘relax London’s lockdown’ is now
- Reaction: government said care homes were safe despite experts’ Covid-19 warnings
- Coronavirus: is it fair to compare countries’ death tolls?
- The Week Unwrapped: CGI influencers, razor wire and Pinochet
- May 14th
- Quiz of The Week: 9 - 15 May
- 52 ideas that changed the world - 47. Relativity
- Reaction: WHO warns that Covid-19 ‘may never go away’
- Instant Opinion: coronavirus lockdown ‘turning us into a nation of spies’
- How coronavirus could break up the UK
- ‘A little flu’: how two Latin American giants sleepwalked into coronavirus carnage
- Coronavirus: what would a ‘recession to end all recessions’ look like?
- May 13th
- How ‘social bubbles’ helped New Zealand beat the coronavirus
- Instant Opinion: ‘Tories nervous’ about changed Boris Johnson
- Will swine flu be the next global pandemic?
- How long can Britain afford the furloughing scheme?
- Reaction: housing market reopens - but what will happen to prices?
- What is convalescent plasma therapy and could it treat coronavirus?
- May 12th
- The tourbillon: watchmaking’s most complicated complication?
- Lockdown losers: the celebrity reputations taking a hit during the coronavirus pandemic
- Instant Opinion: Boris Johnson is telling the working class: ‘good luck out there’
- Reaction: Donald Trump storms out of press briefing as US death toll passes 80,000
- Why everybody’s talking about Obamagate
- In depth: key questions about the new ‘flexible’ lockdown changes
- Which countries have 5G?
- May 11th
- Is coronavirus really mutating to become more dangerous?
- Russia accuses US of Moon ‘invasion’
- When will the world run out of new movies and TV shows?
- Instant Opinion: Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister of the whole UK
- Coronavirus: how relaxing lockdown rules has impacted Europe
- Reaction: Boris Johnson faces ‘backlash’ over coronavirus lockdown exit plan
- May 7th
- The Week Unwrapped: Salaries, sorties and dropshippers
- Will coronavirus bring down Vladimir Putin?
- Reaction: world criticises UK as Covid-19 death toll reaches highest in Europe
- Coronavirus: how the pandemic will change city life forever
- Instant Opinion: is virtual parliament really providing proper scrutiny?
- May 6th
- Quiz of The Week: 2 - 7 May 2020
- How Keir Starmer can rein in Boris Johnson
- Coronavirus: will the pandemic change our economic system?
- Instant Opinion: Boris Johnson could ‘smuggle bad Brexit’ through coronavirus crisis
- Reaction: Donald Trump denies links to failed military coup in Venezuela
- Why everybody’s talking about professor Neil Ferguson
- May 5th
- Coronavirus: could testing sewage be an early warning system?
- Back to work: the UK’s plan for life after coronavirus
- Why has coronavirus not run rampant in India?
- Instant Opinion: Coronavirus has left Brits scared to go outside
- What makes people believe conspiracy theories?
- Reaction: half of all UK adults ‘being bankrolled’ by government during pandemic
- May 4th
- VE Day stories: victory, defeat - and nice knickers
- Reaction: Joe Biden sexual assault accuser pulls out of TV interview
- Should you buy gold coins?
- Coronavirus: the UK’s contact tracing plan explained
- Instant Opinion: Britain failing to protect ‘poor and powerless’ from coronavirus
- Coronavirus linked to rare inflammatory disease in children – here’s what we know
- May 1st
- Coronavirus: the businesses flourishing in the pandemic
- The new coronavirus research out this week: vaccines and immunity
- Race and coronavirus: who is most at risk?
- Lifting lockdown: what the UK can learn from other countries
- Instant Opinion: Dominic Cummings’s critics ‘simply deluded’
- The Week Unwrapped: Dreams, Zooms and executions
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