Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli

Former Italian correspondent of Politico, and contributor to the Coronomics podcast.

What are the lessons learnt from the global pandemic?

From our UK edition

46 min listen

The Coronomics series has come to an end after starting in mid-April, at a time when Hong Kong, Britain, the US, and Italy were at much more serious points of the pandemic. On this final episode, Kate Andrews talks to Nick Gillespie, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, and Jennifer Creery about what their respective governments have learnt

Is reopening possible without a tracing app?

From our UK edition

40 min listen

Germany has launched its contact tracing app, but is it the only way to get out of lockdown? Kate Andrews talks to a panel of international guests and hears about the situation from Italy, where concerns over tourism and getting their cities back are conflicting the residents of Venice and Rome; from Germany, where uptake on

Is a second wave unavoidable?

From our UK edition

51 min listen

In this week’s episode, the Coronomics panel discuss the confusions of Italy’s lockdown easing; Hong Kong’s large-scale repatriation of residents from South Asia; the potential watershed moment of American news outlets accepting federal funds; and whether China is looking down the barrel of a second wave.

Is lockdown fatigue taking over?

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40 min listen

This six-part series is the latest addition to Spectator Radio. Each week, our panellists from around the world each select a story that gives you an inside look at what’s happening outside their windows. In this episode, we take a look at Italy’s route to freedom, Boris’s return to work, intergenerational tensions in New York,

How the pandemic is becoming political

From our UK edition

39 min listen

This six-part series is the latest addition to Spectator Radio. Each week, our panellists from around the world select a story that gives you an inside look at what’s happening outside their windows. In the latest episode, we take a look at Italy’s cautious reopening, the political blame game stateside, and Hong Kong’s second wave worries.

Stories from countries turned upside down

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36 min listen

This six-part series is the latest addition to Spectator Radio. Each week, our panellists from around the world select a story that gives you an inside look at what’s happening outside their windows, presented by Kate Andrews. In this episode, Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie asks how much Trump knew about coronavirus before deciding to act; Silvia Sciorilli