COVID has kept British MPs cooped up at home and none could pay their regular visit to the Kurdistan Region to catch up on key developments and examine how to further bolster the bilateral relationship between Kurdistan and the UK.

Whether it’s a haircut we’re after, a nail appointment, or a chance to see friends and relatives, we are all fixated on just how long this lockdown is going to last, writes Gary Kent.

Most of us have dutifully complied with restrictions on our liberties and kept our heads for almost a month. Some of the media haven’t, writes Gary Kent.

After 10 days in self-isolation with “mild” coronavirus symptoms, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to a central London hospital, and later into intensive care.

When the coronavirus crisis ends, there will be a reckoning through extensive enquiries into what was done or not done and how our economic system and a decade of austerity helped or worsened things. There will be a ferment of ideas that have more chance of winning than before.

We were often asked to “keep calm and carry on” – that old war-time refrain – in response to terrorism. Now we are being told to keep calm, but not carry on as normal.

If we are on the cusp of a major pandemic, then we are also on the verge of rethinking what we have long taken for granted, writes Gary Kent.

British armed interventions have become a hot topic in the contest for the next Labour leader and deputy leader that concludes in early April.

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