12 Jan 2021 - 12:00am

What I’ve learned about suicide There's an increasing tendency to trivialise this desperate act

Julie Burchill

11.01

Can Twitter exist in a democracy? Donald Trump isn't the only problem: liberty depends on the virtues social media erodes

Ed West

11.01

How Macron made France a laughing stock He's a political novice with no ideas of his own, according to a new biography

John Lewis-Stempel

11.01

Why America is haunted by Ancient Rome Even as the Capitol was seized, historical parallels were being drawn

Tom Holland

11.01

Biden is the white knight women don’t need The Democrat's patronising, paternalistic brand of feminism isn't much of improvement on Trump

Kat Rosenfield

08.01

Donald Trump’s ruinous legacy After chaos in the Capitol, how will the Republican Party regroup?

Michael Tracey

08.01

Will Brexit rob France of M&S? The clothes are deemed irretrievably English but Paris still loves the mini bites

John Lichfield

08.01

Why South Africa shrugs at the mutant strain Towards the back of the vaccine queue, the nation has plenty to worry about

Gavin Haynes

08.01

Don’t censor the lockdown sceptics Covid-era restrictions on what we can see and listen to are likely to outlast the disease

Douglas Murray

07.01

The day QAnon captured America The world's most powerful country has been challenged — and not for the last time

Michael Brendan Dougherty

07.01

Whose weird world are we living in? Politics and reality feel connected by only the thinnest of threads

Mary Harrington

07.01

How my drinking lost its virtue Dry January means I can't use booze to escape myself

Giles Fraser