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How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine
For the Indian premier, the virus is a deus ex machina
Monsieur Hulot’s Principles
Macron’s former minister of ecology has written a manifesto which make the cliches in Hallmark greetings cards sound profound. The question is, why did Le Monde publish them?
Trotsky’s lesson for dealing with Covid-19
Man must extend his mastery over nature
Stay alert – because we fear change
The narrative of Tory callousness is re-emerging
Remembering Deepak Lal
To Lal there were no contradictions in defending classical liberalism, democracy, empire and faith in India
‘The Sun Wot Won It’?
When has media coverage really influenced politics?
Five reasons WHO must be rethought
A crisis mustn’t be allowed to let WHO lay us to waste
A series of tubes
Imperial College’s Covid-19 coding is unintelligible
The fallen state of experts
How can governments learn from their expert failings?
The science supports reopening schools
Protect the vulnerable: open all schools immediately
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile