Seattle policemen wearing protective gauze face masks during influenza epidemic of 1918. Credit: Getty

17 Jul 2020 - 8:00am

The collective benefit of mask-wearing

Thursday, 16 July

Yes, there is such a thing as Englishness

How social media became a rancid Babel

Elizabeth Oldfield

Forget Mars, why aren’t we going to Titan?

Wednesday, 15 July

Watch out: anti-maskers are in your midst

America exports its racial politics to France

The EU’s fiendish game of beggar my neighbour

Meet the leader of the new ‘Italexit’ Party

Tuesday, 14 July

Maybe we are all ‘non-binary’?

Happy Bastille Day! Cancelling people since 1789…

How we make life easy for the modern slavers

Monday, 13 July

A final victory for conservative Poland?

The almost-comical tale of Lady A

Mary Harrington

Friday, 10 July

T-cell immunity and the truth about Covid-19 in Sweden

The Hagia Sophia is for prayer, not pictures

Thursday, 9 July

Finally! A way to analyse NHS data from 17 million people

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative?

Wednesday, 8 July

Steven Pinker: They’re trying to cancel me

Rishi Sunak sparks the economy into life

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor

Tuesday, 7 July

English nationalism: the dog that is starting to bark

In the Karen Wars, no woman is safe

Monday, 6 July

Would you have sex with an alien?

Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation

Mary Harrington

Briefing: what are Kanye West’s politics?

Friday, 3 July

Younger people are getting Covid — why is that bad news?

Let’s put an end to macho cultural pessimism

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday, 2 July

Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter

I’m on the Oxford vaccine trial — here’s what it’s like

Dear Harry, maybe go back to ribbon-cutting?

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks!

Wednesday, 1 July

The BLM protests are the perfect Dionysiac moment

Mary Harrington