To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
Will Brexit mean us getting the fags we want?
The current state of the transition talks
Five reasons WHO must be rethought
A crisis mustn’t be allowed to let WHO lay us to waste
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
Welcome to Covidworld
Ian James Kidd and Matthew Ratcliffe assess our new altered reality, where accepted norms do not apply
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Cheer leaders
Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse
The courage of Kate Winslet
One cannot imagine how profound Ms Winslet’s pain must be to now regret working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski
The lost art of the Christmas single
The great Christmas singles came from the broken remains of a country that had forgotten how to be itself
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now