Yes we can hate GB News
It’s not Oliver Dowden’s business to tell us whom we may boycott
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
There’s more than luck to Australia’s response to Covid-19
Early, decisive action saved Australian lives
How to scale up Britain’s coronavirus testing
PHE has allowed the perfect to be the enemy of the good
Faith in the voters
Boris’s secret is not treating the electorate like depressing raw material
The problems with Labour mythology
With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem
Allies at war
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British contribution to the Allied victory
Freeing Speech
A new report is gratifyingly pro-freedom and pro-free speech
“We did everything we could”
This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history
The problem with reporting “ethnic pay gaps”
Pay disparity does not prove an underlying system of discrimination
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
Flying fiends
The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence