24 Jul 2020 - 1:15am

What Labour learned from a year of Boris The Left is still more obsessed with identity politics than finding ways to win back the working class

Paul Embery

24.07

Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden Anders Tegnell, architect of a unique response to the pandemic, defends his approach

Freddie Sayers

24.07

Who paved the way for the populists? Anne Applebaum's book ignores the real drivers of dissatisfaction with liberal democracy

James Bloodworth

24.07

Can German nationalism ever be normal? The rapid rise of the AfD has alarmed the country, and continent, for obvious reasons

Douglas Murray

23.07

What if Leave and Remain switched sides? Many Brexit voters would feel more at home in the EU than in the new Global Britain

Ed West

23.07

Our universities are dangerously reliant on China If Beijing calls for a boycott, some of our most prestigious institutions could fall

Will Tanner

23.07

Have I become a bourgeois cliche? My lockdown obsession with fine wine has refocused my attention on life's important little details

Giles Fraser

23.07

Imagine a world without contraception A shortage of birth control could be embraced as an easy solution to shrinking populations

Mary Harrington

22.07

A cautionary tale for today’s ‘woke’ movement A superb film about the NYT man who lied for Stalin casts light on today's cultural convulsions

John Gray

22.07

Manners maketh the society When Michael Gove called mask-wearing a form of politeness, he was referencing a oft-forgotten virtue

Niall Gooch

22.07

The disturbing history of ‘artificial mothers’ Medicine should be helping women give birth safely — not erasing them from reproduction altogether

Louise Perry

21.07

Covid could become the new common cold Even if we don’t eradicate the disease, we'll end up able to live with it

Tom Chivers