January 4, 2021

Why 2021 will be a false dawn Champagne may flow again, but Britain's divisions will only deepen

James Kirkup

04.01

Can Labour be saved from the hard Left? In the long battle for power, Keir Starmer is already playing clever politics

James Bloodworth

04.01

The pandemic didn’t shatter society, Zoom did During lockdown technology has exacerbated difference and atomised lives

Timandra Harkness

04.01

What did the Habsburgs do for us? Well, rather a lot actually, as two recent books show

Alexander Faludy

03.01

Why we need ‘weirdos’ like Dominic Cummings Do we really want policy decisions left in the hands of the innumerate?

Graeme Archer

01.01

How will Covid shape 2021? With the pandemic routed, old political problems will resurface

Matthew Goodwin

01.01

Why chaos is good for Boris — and Brexit The importance of rational consistency when dealing with complex problems is often exaggerated

Giles Fraser

01.01

How campus politics went global On Beauty: At the start of the century, Zadie Smith identified a tendency that's grown to monstrous proportions

Sarah Ditum

01.01

Charting the decline of the American Republic The Age of Entitlement: Christopher Caldwell sees in the 1960s the beginning of the country's divisions

Ed West

01.01

Whose Great Reset is it anyway? When the Davos elite speak of remaking the world post-Covid, the very online hear a conspiracy

Gavin Haynes