February 24, 2021

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

23.02

Why it’s time to abolish schools Education has been reduced to childcare

Will Lloyd

22.02

How Israel won the vaccine wars The country was predisposed to succeed — but took a huge gamble

Shany Mor

22.02

What we didn’t learn from foot and mouth There is always an alternative to excessive state action

John Lewis-Stempel

22.02

Robert Maxwell was no mystery His is a story of self-hatred and Holocaust trauma

Tanya Gold

22.02

We need to talk about terrorism Today's progressive taboos around race and Islam are stifling constructive debate

Simon Cottee

20.02

Why Starmer is no Attlee His agenda hardly heralds an era-defining transformation of state and public realm

James Kirkup

19.02

The fantasy of English freedom The average Brit would happily have a microchip in his arm if it meant he could go down the pub

Ed West

19.02

Boris needs to take a risk When it comes to ending lockdown, our politicians keep on deferring to data

Timandra Harkness