January 9, 2020

Freud would know why we’re all workaholics Our culture of overwork is a means of running away from the inevitable descent into nothingness

Giles Fraser

09.01

Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

Richard Overy

09.01

The blight of farm suicides It's badly paid, lonely, bureaucratic and the most dangerous job in Britain

John Lewis-Stempel

09.01

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres The politics of the Peasant Poet feel unexpectedly fresh and increasingly urgent today

Mary Harrington

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

08.01

Russia’s brief encounter with the sexual revolution Long before the swinging Sixties, the USSR initiated free love, gay rights and legal abortion. The results were unexpected...

Daniel Kalder

08.01

Lisa Nandy can’t have her cake and eat it The Labour leadership candidate advocates communitarian politics and universalist obligations. That doesn't add up.

David Goodhart

07.01

The war that saved Europe from Communism A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe

Roger Moorhouse

07.01

The poisoning of liberal democracy Ferdinand Mount's <I> The New Few </i> presages a decade destabilised by inequality and incompetent oligarchies

Tanya Gold

07.01

Could the Cummings nerd army fix broken Britain? The 'bad Nash equilibrium' is a good guide to sorting terrible government

Tom Chivers

06.01

Has trans orthodoxy conquered the world? The theory of transgenderism promises salvation to believers and damnation for heretics

Madeleine Kearns

06.01

How Britain created the Middle East crisis The carve-up of the region after the First World War led to the fanaticism and conflict of today

James Barr