PIERS MORGAN: Britain is a country of heroic NHS lions led by dangerously incompetent donkeys - and many thousands of people are going to die as a result, including many trying to save them.

In just five short minutes, Her Majesty gave the greatest speech of her life.

PIERS MORGAN: The health of one man, however important he is, shouldn't turn attention away from the horrifying new coronavirus death figures for the UK.

It's become an increasingly nauseating spectacle and last night, President Trump reached a new low with a press briefing performance that was frankly an utter disgrace.

Britain's care homes are now exploding with coronavirus, both among the residents and the heroic care workers trying to look after them, writes PIERS MORGAN.

The US, which despite all President Trump's claims to the contrary, was shamefully slow to respond to the threat, has had more coronavirus deaths than anywhere else in the world.

President Trump stooped to a shameful new low by suggesting people suffering from COVID-19 be injected with toxic disinfectant. It's hard to imagine a more stupid thing for a President to say

I used very forceful language to convey my dismay at such reckless, shocking and woefully irresponsible behavior. And for that, I make no apology.

PIERS MORGAN: Boris is back! And everything's going to be great! That was the emphatic message sent to the country today.

Who could defeat Boris in the race to become MP for Uxbrdge? Which Labour MP does not know the price of a stamp? And what has Lord Prescott to say for himself?

In a letter to Fred Goodwin (pictured) in 2007, the SNP leader said: 'It is in Scottish interests for RBS to be successful and I would like to offer any assistance my office can provide.'

The UK and the British constitution have been dramatically weakened, all because Messrs Cameron, Miliband and Clegg never took Scotland or the referendum seriously.

Why is the poptastic former Radio 1 DJ causing a headache for his employers; who had to move their conference after it clashed with the Scottish referendum and what will Boris do next.

How many times will Ed Miliband use the word ‘crisis’ in his keynote conference speech today to illustrate all that is wrong with Coalition Britain? Asks ANDREW PIERCE.

Betting magnate Stuart Wheeler believes Ukip will hold the balance of power in a hung Parliament after the next election but has put a sizeable wager on David Cameron winning an overall majority.

Lord Hill dismissed talk of a move to Brussels to be the UK's EU Commissioner but just a few weeks later, Hill has been named in that exact role, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Bet365, which has donated more than £400,000 to Labour, risked embarrassing the party by announcing it is to relocate its international remote operations to the tax haven of Gibraltar.

Equality was the theme of the dinner hosted by Ed Miliband to raise money for Labour’s women candidates at the next General Election.

David Rowland made the highest bid of the night at a small gathering of Tory supporters at Christie's auction house hosted by the Prime Minister and his wife Samantha.

Ken Clarke and Lord Mandelson are becoming joint presidents along with Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, of a new group called British Influence.

During an otherwise confident performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr show this weekend, the Prime Minister stumbled badly when he was challenged over fox hunting.

How very unbrotherly Left-wing Labour can be. Not all of them have rallied to defend their bearded poster-boy Jeremy Corbyn against attacks from the likes of Tony Blair, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Grant Shapps privately believed his key role in Road Trip 2015 – the campaigning operation aimed at winning votes in marginal seats – would catapult him to party leader.

The Whitehall old boy's network is alive and well in the case of John Longworth, writes Andrew Pierce. Ardent Remainers have snubbed his chance at a new post helping to organise Brexit.

Vince Cable has made a career out of U-turns so it's not surprising that the new Lib Dem leader should be accused of yet another screeching about-face. First, he moved from the Labour Party.

ANDREW PIERCE looks at how the Economist bosses rejected a 'political' Brexit animal advert, Heseltine welcoming the Government's defeat in Commons & other stories.

ANDREW PIERCE: 'Unlike some past Attorneys General, Geoffrey Cox has been lauded for his independence of thinking. He refused to compromise his legal view'.

ANDREW PIERCE: One of the biggest surprises at the last General Election was the victory of Labour's Emma Dent Coad in the Conservative stronghold of Kensington.

The SNP MP was revealed last week to have the second largest haul of Parliamentary expenses - at £242,000 - which covers staff, travel and accommodation, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

TOM UTLEY: Worse than any of this, I so adore my new car that I've taken to making entirely unnecessary journeys for the sheer love of driving it.

Sonja Falck, senior psychotherapy lecturer at East London University has claimed someone who uses terms such as 'geek' or nerd' should be prosecuted for a hate crime, writes TOM UTLEY.

TOM UTLEY: You can tell a lot about the way modern families tend to neglect their elderly by the number of car parking spaces available on our road in south London.

TOM UTLEY: To those who argue that there are no fundamental differences between men and women, I say consider the matter of packing for a holiday.

TOM UTLEY: Well, the minutes passed, and then the hours - and still I could get nothing but that infuriating message. I began to feel something like panic stealing over me.

TOM UTLEY: This week's very sad news of Terry Jones's death, after his long decline into dementia, took me straight back to the JCR at my Cambridge college in the early 1970s.

TOM UTLEY: There I was, driving home along the M25 at about 10pm the other night, when suddenly my car braked of its own accord and veered to the right, without any intervention from me.

TOM UTLEY: The most moving story in the history of music, I reckon, is the familiar account of the stone-deaf Beethoven's public appearance - his first on stage for 12 years.

TOM UTLEY: All right, I'm prepared to believe that some people spend a chunk of every day wishing they'd done something differently. Take David Cameron...

TOM UTLEY: Enough to say I will not be applying for a retirement job in the police as one of its specialist group of officers who never forget a face. Pictured: Super-recogniser PCSO Andy Pope.

TOM UTLEY: if I started going to Communion again now, as a non-believer, the only probable effect on my health would be exposure to a strong risk of catching COVID-19 from the chalice.

TOM UTLEY: When my bosses suggested I should take a leaf out of the Prime Minister's book by writing about five women who had shaped my life, my heart sank (pictured, Margaret Thatcher).

TOM UTLEY: First, a shameful confession: when news of the coronavirus first broke, I planned to write a column asking what all the fuss was about (pictured, PM Boris Johnson).

TOM UTLEY: I know many readers will condemn me as a suicidal, homicidal maniac when I admit that, on Tuesday, I took Mrs U out for an idyllic pub lunch - perhaps our last for a very long time.

TOM UTLEY: All my grown-up life, I've prided myself on being something of a non-conformist - a maverick unafraid to question and challenge the conventional wisdom and conduct of the herd.

TOM UTLEY: As a fellow scribbler remarked elsewhere this week, wild animals seem to possess 'some atavistic sixth sense that humans are in disarray or on the retreat'.

It's the first time since I foolishly took up smoking during my gap year in France almost 50 years ago that I've heard anyone suggest my addiction might actually be doing me good, writes TOM UTLEY.

TOM UTLEY: I couldn't help feeling a momentary twinge of sympathy for Ryan Hoyle, 38, when I read yesterday that the self-employed joiner had just won £58,366,487 in the EuroMillions draw.

TOM UTLEY: On the day this week when Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds were celebrating their happy event, my wife and I received joyful news about our own baby boy.

TOM UTLEY: I'm quite content to stay here in my South London suburb -with perhaps a trip to Norfolk, Scotland or Wales when the lockdown eases.

Britain's world class big pharma companies were always going to be a huge asset in the fight against Covid-19 and in finding solutions, not just to this pandemic, but to future similar events.