February 26, 2021

In defence of moral panics More often than not, we need to listen to our inner Mary Whitehouse

Niall Gooch

25.02

Are you a ‘basic conservative’? As Tony Soprano shows, we all long for clear-cut social norms — even if we disobey them

Ed West

25.02

Will Rishi Sunak survive this Budget? The Chancellor's ability to move fast and not break things may yet be his undoing

Peter Franklin

25.02

Don’t cancel the Classics The ancient world has become the latest battlefield in today's culture wars

Daisy Dunn

25.02

Celebrity chefs are past their sell-by date Cooked up in a cloud kitchen, post-Covid foodie culture relies on a new type of influencer

Mary Harrington

24.02

Can the EU survive the death of liberalism? The bloc was designed for a philosophy that no longer exists

Larry Siedentop

24.02

How lockdown changed us Like prisoners, we're grateful for the slightest glimpse of freedom — but did it have to be like this?

Freddie Sayers

24.02

Free speech warriors are the real puritans Critics of today's progressives understand liberty, but not their opponents

Tomiwa Owolade

24.02

Why populism always fails As Juan Perón's rise and fall showed, regimes dependent on a personality never succeed

Jill Hedges

23.02

Should we vaccinate children? Boris's 'roadmap' out of lockdown seems sensible — but he's forgetting something

Tom Chivers

23.02

Woody Allen: the biggest lie of all A new documentary presents itself as 'definitive' — and erases all nuance

Kat Rosenfield

23.02

The dictator who fooled us Why are we negotiating with Rwanda’s despot?

Ian Birrell