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
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
