24 Apr 2020 - 1:00am

Short stories for short attention spans John Gray, Polly Mackenzie, Tom Holland and other writers recommend succinct reading to suit our strange reality

Various Contributors

24.04

The joy of lockdown laziness We're not hard-wired to work; we're hard-wired to be idle

Tom Hodgkinson

23.04

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown Amid Covid-19, this country has happily abandoned the freedom from which America was born

James Kirkup

23.04

So you want to quit the rat race Disillusioned millennials dream of upping sticks in pursuit of the agrarian fantasy

Mary Harrington

23.04

No sex please, we’re brutish <i>Too Hot to Handle</I>'s phony reverence for chastity is perfect for our hypersexualised times

Louise Perry

23.04

Are we ready for the next coronation? As we approach the end of Her Majesty's reign, a moment of nervousness is not inappropriate

Giles Fraser

22.04

Britain doesn’t care about social care The Covid crisis has exposed how little our society values its most vulnerable

Ian Birrell

22.04

Did anyone predict coronavirus? Hindsight makes it easy to blame the Government for listening to the wrong people, not the right ones

Tom Chivers

22.04

Lockdown is just a holiday from modernity This may look like the beginning of a seismic change in society — but don't be fooled

Niall Gooch

22.04

What’s the world’s greatest spectator sport? <i>University Challenge</i> is a truer test of character than kicking a football round a field

Simon Evans

21.04

Will Gen Z recover from Covid? Zoomers will enter the workforce against the backdrop of both the Great Recession and the Great Lockdown

Matthew Goodwin

21.04

The sly sexism of the OK Karen meme It isn't just a bit of fun aimed at entitled women: it's the new "pipe down, love"

Sarah Ditum