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
31.12
2020: the year the elites failed upwards After months of repeated errors and deceptions, experts and institutions are more powerful than ever
Jacob Siegel
31.12
Was the British Empire a curse? The Long Way Back: Margot Bennett sounds a warning that all such imperial projects are doomed
Matthew Sweet
