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Health

It’s not that hard to not be overweight

And no, you don’t need a ‘miracle’ weight loss drug

Teresa Mull

Living with is a phrasal verb first applied, in the 17th century, to spouses

Dot Wordsworth

The study’s outcome appears to indicate that reopening schools would be safe

Ross Clark

New research on mutations of the virus suggests so

Ross Clark

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This virus is still evolving

Dr John Lee

Politics
April 27, 2020
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
Americans are polarized in their attitudes to risk
Patrick Allitt
April 22, 2020
The contenders — and challenges — in the race to cure COVID
There are reasons to be optimistic about the therapies being tested
Matt Ridley
Europe
March 19, 2020
We are about to find out how robust civilization is
The hardships ahead will be like nothing we have ever known
Matt Ridley
Politics
March 13, 2020
What have we learned since the swine flu outbreak?
Trump’s national emergency declaration shows what we’ve learned since H1N1
Amber Duke
China
February 25, 2020
In coronavirus quarantine
House arrest in China could be worse
Alex Colville
China
February 8, 2020
Is China hiding how bad the coronavirus is?
When an authoritarian regime controls all media outlets and arrests anyone who talks outside the party line, truth is hard to discover
James Adams
January 25, 2020
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
Nasty bugs derived from Chinese livestock markets never fail to whip up mass hysteria
Ross Clark