Best of the week, 17 April 2021

The emptiness of Evil

Vice became exciting when virtue grew boring — but it will never sustain you

Terry Eagleton
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The Left runs Joe Biden — not the other way around

The President is bending over backwards to satisfy the Democrats’ 'woke' wing

| 16 April

Scotland’s mid-life crisis

Alex Salmond and George Galloway are the white knights nobody wants

Alex Salmond and George Galloway are the white knights nobody wants

Ruth Davidson
Why the West lost India’s culture wars

Rising Hindu nationalism has outflanked the global Left

Rising Hindu nationalism has outflanked the global Left

Razib Khan
He was never really ‘Phil the Greek’

An aggrieved monkey caused the young Prince to be exiled from his homeland

An aggrieved monkey caused the young Prince to be exiled from his homeland

Aris Roussinos
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The Left runs Joe Biden — not the other way around

The President is bending over backwards to satisfy the Democrats’ 'woke' wing

| 16 April

Philip, Prince of Nowhere

The ultimate outsider somehow became a figurehead for Britishness

Ed West
Ulster’s lost boys turn violent

Lockdown and Brexit have drawn a new generation into an old conflict

Jenny McCartney
Do you miss Trump yet?

His life's second act may be stranger than the first

Sam Leith
Will David Cameron ever be satisfied?

Too many of our ex-leaders regard ordinary voters with disdain

Douglas Murray
The politicians we didn’t deserve

Alan Duncan's diaries epitomise the emptiness of his generation

Douglas Murray
The hypocrisy of David Cameron

The ex-PM has become a symbol of systemic failure

Peter Franklin
Macron’s fake war on the elites

The French President's cynical rebranding will not convince anyone

John Lichfield

The French President's cynical rebranding will not convince anyone

John Lichfield
Why they’ll never understand Brexit

Too many experts are unable to escape their own political prejudices

James Kirkup
Sweden’s migrant rape crisis

European liberals never ask uncomfortable questions about immigration

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

Did Sweden get Covid wrong?

Johan Giesecke, the outspoken epidemiologist, assesses a year of pandemic

Bridget Phetasy: will YouTube disappear me?

The comedian is nervous about her future on the platform

Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up

The IDW convenor explains how the group became ideologically divided

Dave Rubin: the next Governor of California?

In a teaser ahead of today's interview, the YouTuber spoke about a potential run...

Vermont Professor: I stand by my anti-whiteness video

Freddie Sayers spoke to Aaron Kindsvatter, professor of counselling at the University of Vermont


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14:30

Why does France’s youth support Marine Le Pen?

The Right-wing leader is on course to gain young voters to next year's election

| 16 April
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Withdrawal from Afghanistan is the wake up call Britain needs

Perhaps now we will stop slavishly following the US into war

| 16 April
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10:28

The SNP monopoly is finally breaking up

Whatever happens in the election next month, new populist parties are emerging

| 16 April
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The uncomfortable truth about sex at university

Wherever men and women live together, there will be instances of sexual assault

| 16 April
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17:30

Careful Andy Burnham, sniping at Westminster won’t work

Scoring cheap political points will only undermine the devolution project

| 15 April
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Why the media love Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal

The President's policy is identical to Donald Trump's — but that's not how CNN sees it

| 15 April
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11:33

Israel’s identity crisis

A declining Jewish population poses new and difficult questions for the country

| 15 April
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07:00

Delaying the ‘indy’ vote will leave Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable

The SNP leader's concession will be music to Alex Salmond’s ears

| 15 April
Video
00:00

Did Sweden get Covid wrong?

Johan Giesecke, the outspoken epidemiologist, assesses a year of pandemic

| 15 April
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15:36

Bridget Phetasy: will YouTube disappear me?

The comedian is nervous about her future on the platform

| 14 April
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10:30

‘Levelling up’ Hartlepool will be harder than Boris thinks

Coronavirus has exposed huge health inequalities across the country

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Superforecaster: Academic intolerance will be a ‘blip’

Philip Tetlock is sanguine about the future of higher education

| 14 April
Series: The challenge from China

The challenge from China

What are the superpower’s plans for the future?

How Game of Thrones saved the North

Ten years on, its fantasy world has turned Britain's national story upside down

Ed West
Nobody ever leaves North Korea

London's 'Little Pyongyang' is still haunted by totalitarianism

Etan Smallman
The Covid dissidents taking on China

Beijing's science stooges are being unmasked by an international team of online sleuths

Ian Birrell
Can prohibition be progressive?

As pubs reopen, spare a thought for the teetotal social justice warriors of old

Tomiwa Owolade
Is my Christianity a disguise?

There's an undeniable feeling of guilt as old loyalties are replaced

Giles Fraser

There's an undeniable feeling of guilt as old loyalties are replaced

Giles Fraser
The virtues of masculinity

Contemporary culture demonises many traditional male traits — at what cost?

Mary Harrington
The Prime Minister women needed

Unlike Thatcher, the late Shirley Williams would have fought for genuine equality

Jenni Murray

Box Set: Black Lives Matter

Our contributors examine the protest movement that shook the world

Why the Left needs ‘institutional racism’

Their dogmatic approach makes sensible analysis impossible

Douglas Murray
Antiracism is too middle-class

An obsession with language ignores the material priorities of Britain’s minorities

Remi Adekoya
America’s struggle to end extremism

Both Left and Right have seen violence carried out in their name — and done nothing

Douglas Murray
Can Ireland survive the new cultural revolution?

If your economy is ruled from California, then your society will be too

Angela Nagle

America has always been a basket case

The nation often appears deranged and unstable — only to come up trumps

Justin Webb
What haunts Hunter Biden?

The politician's son had the misfortune to grow up surrounded by saints

Tanya Gold
Why we let Big Brother win

From vaccine passports to facial recognition, we are too relaxed about being ruled by technology

Timandra Harkness
Philip Roth’s carnival of desire

The flawed writer is an antidote to today's less ambitious literary scene

Boyd Tonkin