Covid
The people’s pantomime
Did we spend months in misery because we couldn’t handle the truth?
The lockdown’s founding myth
We’ve forgotten that the Imperial model didn’t even call for a full lockdown
Pained Boris muddles through
The prime minister had a bruising session at the Liaison Committee
The NHS is the new Church — Militant and Triumphant
The clinical decisions rushed through in March had a single goal: to protect the reputation of the NHS
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
Learning to love on Twitter
Our online behaviour is, if the last two months are anything to go by, depressing
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
Live free and die: Sweden’s coronavirus experience
What have we learnt from the coronavirus outlier?
Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
