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Happiness is tricky. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

August 26, 2020

Why is middle age so depressing? Happiness is the most important subject of scientific inquiry. But it's not easy to study

Tuesday

25.08

The ZeroCovid debate: can the disease be eliminated? Professor Devi Sridhar makes the case for why we should not tolerate any level of Covid-19

Why Britain needs a million new farmers The pandemic has boosted once-fringe ideas about ditching city life to go back to the land

Who do the English think they are? For centuries, debate has raged about whether England's population is largely descended from German immigrants. Now, we have answers

The secrets of Scotland’s ancient capital Seven kings are buried among Dunfermline's litter-strewn ruins — a fact the nationalists could make more of

Monday

24.08

The generation betrayed by Boris The cohort of youngsters whose futures were crushed by lockdown may never forgive the Tories

Why is nature writing all about egos? The genre tends to focus on self-discovery rather than birds or beasts — which makes Tom Fort's work so refreshing

John Lewis-Stempel

How the nation learned to sport again During coronavirus, we've rediscovered the old meaning of outdoor — and indoor — recreation

Friday

21.08

Leon Trotsky’s disturbing afterlife Eighty years after he died, why does the murderous communist hero retain such allure?

Let the Spitting Image rubber rot Will the new version really dare to be more outrageous than the original?

The older workers condemned by Covid Thousands have been left unemployed by the pandemic. For over-50s, it could be a life sentence

The abolitionist who believed in bloodshed John Brown's legacy raises a tricky question: can an institution be so evil that violence against it is justified?