31 Dec 2019 - 12:15am

The turn of the year is no cause for optimism Why do we have such an unerring ability to choose the wrong future?

Peter Hitchens

31.12

The End of the World is always nigh Richard Landes's much underrated <i>Heaven on Earth</i> explores our lust for Armageddon

Daniel Kalder

31.12

How my daughter disrupted my politics When your child is born profoundly disabled, it forces you to see everything differently

Ian Birrell

31.12

The EU is flunking its Brexit opportunity Instead of stabilising Europe's divisions, the British vote to leave is widening them

Helen Thompson

30.12

So did ‘idiot voters’ get it wrong? 'False consciousness' has always been a popular explanation for Left-wing electoral failure

Tom Chivers

30.12

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman The Conservative MP's 2011 <I> Case for Real Capitalism </I> was prescient — but ignored by his party

James Kirkup

30.12

Welcome to the new Springtime of the Peoples From Chile to China to Lebanon, people have taken to the streets. What links these movements?

Bruno Macaes

30.12

The Kafkaesque nightmare of British justice Defendants in the British legal system are treated like Josef K in <i>The Trial</i>

Jenny McCartney

30.12

Our modern parenting is making monsters To make children constantly choose is to abdicate one’s responsibility for being a parent

Giles Fraser

27.12

2019: the year the West wised up to China Xi Jinping is not leading the nation on a path of slow evolution towards liberal democracy

John Gray

27.12

How liars become leaders There's a reason books such as <i>Gone Girl</i> and <i>The Girl on the Train</i> have been so popular this decade

Polly Mackenzie

27.12

Is the ‘epidemic of loneliness’ fake news? The health impacts of increasing isolation are being doomily exaggerated

Tom Chivers