Month: April 2020

Total Results: 87

Did anyone predict coronavirus? Hindsight makes it easy to blame the Government for listening to the wrong people, not the right ones

Lockdown is just a holiday from modernity This may look like the beginning of a seismic change in society — but don't be fooled

What’s the world’s greatest spectator sport? <i>University Challenge</i> is a truer test of character than kicking a football round a field

Tuesday

21.04

Will Gen Z recover from Covid? Zoomers will enter the workforce against the backdrop of both the Great Recession and the Great Lockdown

Matthew Goodwin

The sly sexism of the OK Karen meme It isn't just a bit of fun aimed at entitled women: it's the new "pipe down, love"

Can Emmanuel Macron reinvent himself? The French President's willingness to wrestle intellectually with the Covid crisis sets him apart

For China, a legal reckoning is coming We need a new international treaty to deal with risks to the future of humanity

Guglielmo Verdirame

Monday

20.04

Is China preparing for war? There's a reason Beijing is aggressively pursuing a policy of total national self-sufficiency

The return of every man for himself The coronavirus pandemic shows how multilateralism has weakened national resilience

Who will pay for this Covid catastrophe? Magic money trees do exist but their fruit is poisonous

The unhappy truth about surrogacy BBC drama <i>The Nest</I> romanticises — and normalises — the renting of women's wombs

Friday

17.04

What did Playboy ever do for women? Most things pertaining to sex should be viewed in the context of their times