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Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.

A waiter wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, passes a customer drinking outside a restaurant in London. AFP Photo

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | As COVID-19 returns to UK, holidayers bear the brunt

Boris Johnson is now worried, scared of a second wave. So rules changed again, catching holiday makers unawares

4 Aug 2020 5:08 PM IST

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson during Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London . AFP Photo

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | Westminster revamp sooner, will the British cabinet...

However, there will be problems as Westminster has not only parliamentarians but also large numbers of workers, at all...

20 July 2020 4:54 PM IST

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | Boris toils for a slimmer nation; will Ghislaine sing...

July 4 was our freedom day though the previous weekend, too, people broke free and thronged every beach or park they...

6 July 2020 6:51 PM IST

Commuters wearing a face mask travel on TfL Victoria Line underground train carriages, heading towards central London, on June 15, 2020 (AFP)

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | UK cautiously looks ahead, to local travel and...

There are reports that the government might relax the social distancing rule as the economy needs to pick up

22 Jun 2020 5:53 PM IST

The lockdown is beginning to splinter with the cabinet issuing confusing instructions to citizens. AFP Photo

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | Boris Johnson loses clout in Parliament

Having survived Covid, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going through an annihilation by politics

8 Jun 2020 6:18 PM IST

People wear protective face masks as they walk down Whitehall in the Spring sunshine in central London. (AFP)

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | Everybody needs a Whitsun holiday while UK ponders...

As the weeks have gone by, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks less and less in charge

27 May 2020 7:04 PM IST

A key worker hands back a swab to a medical worker at a drive-in testing facility for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in east London. AFP Photo

Opinion

UK paid a heavy price for being late on coronavirus response

While parts of India are now being opened up, very tentatively, in the UK there is confusion and debate on how long the...

26 April 2020 7:52 PM IST

Handout image released by 10 Downing Street shows Britains prime minister Boris Johnson as he delivers a television address after returning to 10 Downing Street after being discharged from St Thomas Hospital, in central London on April 12, 2020. Johnson was discharged from hospital on Sunday, a week after being admitted for treatment for coronavirus and spending three days in intensive care. (AFP)

Opinion

London Diary: Boastful Boris and the not-so-flat sombrero

During his fortnight away, the PM left behind a real vacuum: who''ll do the press conference!

13 April 2020 10:11 PM IST

$An ambulance passes the closed-down Prince of Wales pub where a sign outside reads \Thanks to the NHS and all our key workers\, in Fleet, south west of London, on March 30, 2020, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Life in locked-down Britain may not return to normal for six months or longer as it battles the coronavirus outbreak, a top health official warned on Sunday, as the death toll reached passed 1,200. (AFP)$ Opinion