Features
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
The problem with Adam, Eve and Steve
Is Polyamory really a progressive, feminist-friendly modus vivendi?
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
Smuggling Plato to Prague
Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
