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I’ve just spent the last three hours totally away from issues relating to the virus thanks to the remarkable plan by the National Theatre to screen free on ‘YouTube a production from its National Theatre Live programme. One Man Two Guvnors with James Corden has just ended and it has been thoroughly entertaining. I’ve not laughed as much in months. It is a feature of this whole affair that initiatives like this have emerged. If the shutdown is going on…

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This had been widely predicted and, indeed, follows the pattern or some other countries but even so the scale of what is happening comes as something of a shock. The forecasts earlier in the week of the eventual UK death total being 20k don’t now look exaggerated. One thing is for sure the more old people are losing their lives the more people are taking note of the government warnings. Quite where this will end is hard to say but…

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Ever since that first YouGov labour leadership poll come out at the start of the year there has never been any real question that the next LAB leader would be the former DPP, Sir Keir Starmer. His margin in that first poll came as quite a shock it will be recalled, because the assumption was that at the candidate favoured by the current leadership, Rebecca long Bailey, would secure the backing of the same groups in the party that were…

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For the best in late night political conversation For many years a regular feature on PB was nighthawks – an overnight open thread. For some reason we stopped doing it and I am bringing it back following calls by a couple of longstanding PBers. The nighthawks “logo”, inspired by the original Edward Hooper painting, was designed by Marf. For me there are two big unknowns – how long this is going to last and how the world will have changed…

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At least we’d be talking about something other than the virus The thing that I find most weird about the current lockdown situation is that there is no football or other our professional sport. At this point we would be having the build up to the Grand National, the Boat Race and the final stages the football season. The lack of things to bet on has huge implications for the betting industry because so much of their turnover is driven…

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