The shutdown will be with us for the duration. What the South Korean route out of it will mean – and why it’s now necessary.

Following this road will require a transformation of how we work and live on an expectation-defying scale.

The New Normal will be Very Abnormal Indeed. Here are 15 sets of questions about it.

How prepared are we for strict social distancing for the forseeable future, compulsory masks, closed leisure facilities – and a semi-functioning economy?

Steve Mastin: The Shadow Education Secretary is failing to take her role seriously

During this crisis she should offer constructive advice. Not make false claims that state funding for schools is threatened.

Robert Halfon: If we stay in this shutdown beyond the end of May, it won’t be a threat to our liberty, but the safeguarding of our lives 

If police officers are shouting at people with loudhailers and disbanding picnickers in local parks, then, good.

James Wallice: Lecturer strikes and closed libraries. Why students aren’t getting value for money from universities.

We should be shortchanged no more. Either our colleges reform their financial systems, or lose whatever student support they still have left.

Shona Haslam: This crisis has shown that councils can make quick decisions when needed

We are providing food deliveries for around 2,600 households in the Scottish Borders. Rural transport for the children of key workers was also urgent.

John Bald: Relying on home education will hit poor children hardest

Highly-educated parents transmit their knowledge and understanding to their children. For others it is less easy.

Ed Hall: The heroes of the struggle against the virus are Little Britons, not the Big State

The part of the country that is working well is the part that is not waiting for people in a risk-averse chain of centralised command to make a decision.

The question isn’t whether to end the lockdown. It’s when and how to do it. Can the Government rise to the challenge?

The Prime Minister’s hospitalisation accentuates the need for a new strategic structure to support a new strategic plan.

Liam Fox: The virus – what it is, what it means, and the two options open to Ministers for phasing out the shutdown

Whatever model is adopted or whatever alternative proposal is deemed better, the public need to know that there is an exit strategy in place.

Steve Mastin: How our teachers are rising to the extraordinary challenge of school closures

And as the Easter holidays begin, here are a few ways to keep children intellectually and socially engaged which don’t depend on online learning.

Tim Smith: What should we do for the furloughed worker?

The Government has sat on its hands over the National Retraining Scheme. Ministers need to deliver it – with laid-off workers in the fast lane.

The virus. Why Johnson fell. Why Johnson flourished. Two first drafts of history from 2024.

Two extreme versions of what happens next in Britain. Events are more likely to end up somewhere in the middle.

Robert Halfon: Britain is now a moderate social democratic state

Whether moderate right Conservative, or moderate left, austerity is dead, and this new age will be with us for a long time to come.

Rushi Millns: Remote working meets remote learning – a match made in hell?

With parents having to balance their children’s education with their own employment demands, how can technology facilitate these two demands?