3 Feb 2021 - 12:30am

Has Macron lost the plot? The pressure of next year's election seems to be skewing the President's political compass

John Lichfield

03.02

Can the vaccine keep up with the Covid variants? We're now engaged in a Darwinian arms race with the mutating virus

Tom Chivers

03.02

The ideology that broke Britain Our unwieldy and bureaucratic state is heading for self-destruction

Aris Roussinos

03.02

We’ve turned teens into lockdown lab rats Teenagers need to learn from each other — rather than from a screen

Timandra Harkness

02.02

Why the EU lost the vaccine war The bloc is ill-at-ease with technology, and that will be its downfall

Bruno Macaes

02.02

What America can learn from Russia Spiralling addiction, inequality and an oligarch class can pave the way for authoritarianism

Daniel Kalder

02.02

Will young people ever work again? The pandemic has left recent graduates facing an uncertain future

Maria Albano

02.02

Light a candle; spring is coming After a winter that has felt endless, Candlemas is here

Eleanor Parker

01.02

Europe shows its true colours The vaccine debacle is a sign of the EU's future direction

Peter Franklin

01.02

We’d be lost without borders The illusion of a borderless world has been exposed by the coronavirus epidemic

Paul Scheffer

01.02

Why snark is better than smarm The cult of kindness is, in practice, a permission slip to be cruel

Sarah Ditum

01.02

What if we were always a little bit drunk? Glasses at the ready — a new film suggests we need alcohol more than we might think