April 27, 2020

Which epidemiologist do you believe? The debate about lockdown is not a contest between good and evil

Freddie Sayers

27.04

How restaurants ate themselves William Sitwell's history of dining out will make you hunger for your favourite local eatery

Tanya Gold

27.04

Don’t go looking for utopia in lockdown As the history of separatist movements in America suggests, communal self-isolating tends to end in tears

Daniel Kalder

24.04

Can British media steer clear of the American sewer? Political TV hosts in America are obsequious, self-congratulatory and inadequate — let's not copy them

Douglas Murray

24.04

Didier Raoult: the man whose Covid ‘cure’ went viral Is the French microbiologist a scientific superhero, or medical charlatan?

John Lichfield

24.04

Short stories for short attention spans John Gray, Polly Mackenzie, Tom Holland and other writers recommend succinct reading to suit our strange reality

Various Contributors

24.04

The joy of lockdown laziness We're not hard-wired to work; we're hard-wired to be idle

Tom Hodgkinson

23.04

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown Amid Covid-19, this country has happily abandoned the freedom from which America was born

James Kirkup

23.04

So you want to quit the rat race Disillusioned millennials dream of upping sticks in pursuit of the agrarian fantasy

Mary Harrington

23.04

No sex please, we’re brutish <i>Too Hot to Handle</I>'s phony reverence for chastity is perfect for our hypersexualised times

Louise Perry

23.04

Are we ready for the next coronation? As we approach the end of Her Majesty's reign, a moment of nervousness is not inappropriate

Giles Fraser

22.04

Britain doesn’t care about social care The Covid crisis has exposed how little our society values its most vulnerable

Ian Birrell