Another civil war in the US? Plus: no vax for Novak.
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It couldn’t happen again … could it? Reflections on last year’s 6 January Capitol riot in the US – amid a trenchantly divided political landscape between Democrats and Republicans – have led many observers to wonder whether the country could seriously be on the path to another civil war. Washington bureau chief David Smith asks the experts, while columnist Jonathan Freedland ponders the sinister influence of Donald Trump and a make-or-break year for democracy in the US.
Tennis’s Novak Djokovic found himself in the wrong sort of court this week as a row over vaccine requirements for his Australian visa rumbled on. Tumaini Carayol reports from Melbourne on a tough week for the world No 1, whose stance has earned him a dubious new fanbase of anti-vaxxers and far-right figures.