Health
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19
The underlying cause of death
Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths
Lockdown sceptics are society’s gadflies
‘I can’t agree with Alistair Haimes that the arrival of vaccines should change how we feel about lockdowns’
In defence of lockdown sceptics
Alistair Haimes is wrong – the facts against a third lockdown haven’t changed
People with disabilities are bearing the brunt of Covid measures
The coronavirus response will disproportionately affect people with disabilities for years to come
The new Covid-19 strain is a political disaster of our own making
By seeking answers to scientific questions no-one had asked, we find ourselves assigning importance to discoveries which may have none
Boiling the bioethical frog
Have we passed the point of no return? The Covid Physician warns against crossing the bioethical Rubicon
What can blood and stool tell us about the spread of Covid-19?
New scientific studies have captured a different, broader picture – not a selection of details in high-resolution that grab headlines
The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction
The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
