NEW YORK/MILAN/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) – Corona Capital is a column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte waves as he arrives at the upper house of parliament ahead of a confidence vote in Rome, Italy, January…
Hold onto your head, Dwight K. Schrute. There’s a new bobblehead boss in town, and his name is Dr. Anthony Fauci. Since the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases started appearing on TV screens in March 2020 he’s become a symbol of comfort, truth, knowledge, and…
By the late fall of 2020, he was spending time on private Facebook pages where far-right chatter proliferated. He posted long, often angry video soliloquies about how the country was being stolen. He seemed to become increasingly convinced that people were plotting not just against Mr. Trump but against the…
Every nation has icons of national pride: a sports star, a space mission, or a piece of architecture. Usually they encapsulate a country’s spirit, so citizens can look up from their dreary lives and say “Now there‘s something I can take pride in!” Concorde, the supersonic airliner beloved by the…
Israel has extradited an ultra-orthodox former headteacher accused of committing dozens of child sex offences against her pupils in Australia, ending a six-year legal battle. Malka Leifer was put on an early-morning flight from Tel Aviv to Australia, Israeli media reported on Monday, just hours before Ben Gurion airport was…
Inauguration is over and done with and the 2020 election is finally behind us. You know what that means: Time to think about 2024! MSCHF, the group behind offbeat projects like Walt’s Kitchen and “killing brands” on TikTok, had this forethought when they created In The Year 2024. They bought…
In urging the Supreme Court to hear Mr. Silvers case, his lawyers said that legal standard gave prosecutors too much power. The Second Circuit approved jury instructions that allowed a state official to be convicted of federal bribery on a jurys after-the-fact finding that the official had an unexpressed, unilateral…
Boris Johnson has been visiting the new vaccination centres this morning – Stefan Rousseau Boris Johnson has revealed the Government will be “looking at the potential of relaxing some measures”, however No 10 has cautioned that there will be no changes before mid-February. The Prime Minister said that the Government…
Eyes on the ball, folks. There’s general agreement at this point among people who aren’t actively lying to the American public about the 2020 election that Ted Cruz bears some responsibility for the violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6. So it’s not really a…
