The Financial Times
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Martin Sandbu
– Jul 2, 2020, 9:01 PM
A few weeks into the lockdown, when UK Covid-19 deaths were hitting a thousand a day, I crossed my London street to check on a neighbour. Around 50, she does not fall into a vulnerable category, but she works at a supermarket checkout and has been…
The New York Times
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Peter S. Goodman
– Jul 3, 2020, 1:56 PM
LONDON — In the southeast corner of Ireland, Brian Byrne's event-planning business was confronting a calamity. It was the middle of March, and the coronavirus pandemic was nearing peak lethality. As the government barred gatherings like…
The Washington Post
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Megan McArdle
– Jul 3, 2020, 1:06 PM
By the time someone gets to be chief executive of a successful firm, they have generally been trained out of saying anything surprising in public. So I was positively astonished Monday when I saw Patrick Collison, the CEO of payments firm Stripe…
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