Why we don’t tolerate Covid deaths among the over 70s New research shows that there’s much more life to live even at that age

If even David Icke fans aren’t anti-vaxxers… A report on high levels of vaccine hesitancy inadvertently shows the opposite

Wednesday

17.02

Remember that you are dust: why Ash Wednesday still resonates As the visible world recedes, and the invisible one seems to move a little closer

Joe Biden’s easy ride with reporters Trump or no Trump, America's press looks in bad shape

Is this the solution to Britain’s housing crisis? Give residents a vote on beautiful new streets

Free speech on campus — what’s not to like? It's not clear what critics of the Government's new white paper object to

Tuesday

16.02

Government scientist speaks out: we want the old normal back Freddie Sayers spoke to SPI-M member Dr Michael Tildesley about learning to live with the virus

Cymrophobia thrives at the heart of the British establishment Think Wales would never seek independence? Don't be so sure

Theo Davies-Lewis

America’s radical young rich are out of control This generation is lacking the restraints of past elites

Monday

15.02

An English Parliament means one thing: an English Yeltsin Nick Timothy's Scotland solution ignores the role of devosceptics

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain The contemporary Left is too invested in prosecuting a culture war

Slate Star Codex vs NYT is a battle within the same faith The blog controversy is over different versions of the same promised land

Mary Harrington

Friday

12.02

China didn’t Westernise; the West became more Chinese Covid has accelerated the competition between great powers

Are we seeing a vaccine effect already? We can look to Israel for clues

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens A halfway competent protest party on the Left could cause him problems

Thursday

11.02

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Covid has changed the immigration debate The political activist and feminist discusses her new book, Prey

The dark fantasy of a new Vichy France There is an undercurrent of Anglo-titillation with a Le Pen victory

Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO An article was labelled misinformation for asking questions about China

European populism isn’t going anywhere Despite the narrative of decline, certain parties are gathering power

Wednesday

10.02

Sorry Boris, school’s out for summer We are all exhausted, staff and students alike

Will Covid-19 turn us into a nation of ethicists? The pandemic has exposed what values we hold sacred

Elizabeth Oldfield

Lockdown scepticism is not Euroscepticism repackaged New research presents an entirely different picture

Should the Green Party’s poll progress worry Labour? Ipsos polling places them three times higher than their vote share in 2019

Tuesday

09.02

How high will Bitcoin be allowed to go? At some point, governments will intervene

Why is gender studies promoting anti-women literature? A new paper argues that ‘privileged white women’ ‘weaponise’ their trauma

Advice should focus on ventilation, not cleaning surfaces The Government advice on making businesses Covid secure is out of date

Jonathon Kitson

Monday

08.02

Another bizarre Labour proposal: scrapping the honours system Keir Starmer has a long way to go if he wants to be head of the 'patriotic party'

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over Hostilities between Gavin Barwell and Dan Hannan are a sign of more to come

Letter from Victoria, capital of Authoritarian Australia The state has implemented extremely draconian Covid measures

Edward Cranswick

Friday

05.02

The New York Times’ red-tinted glasses Why is the Grey Lady so strikingly uncritical of China?

Mary Harrington

Ladybird Books offer a blueprint for post-Covid Britain UK politics has been short on positive visions for decades, so why not this one?

Freddie Sayers and Julia Hobsbawm debate Adam Boulton on Sky The panelists found unexpected agreement about Neil O'Brien's Covid website

The EU would if it could, but it can’t so it won’t It can move quickly or undertake big projects — but not both at the same time

Thursday

04.02

Should we be vaccinating young people first? Prioritising 'quality-adjusted life years' over lives saved would change everything

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong Talking to Tories is a good thing, but the activist should also to listen to them

Why Ireland is abandoning the Church What once was a Christian country is fast becoming a nation of 'nones'

Wednesday

03.02

Roger Hallam: the conservative case for Extinction Rebellion The environmental campaigner tells Freddie Sayers his movement is not just for the radical Left

Italy’s democratic dilemma Will an anti-establishment party bow the knee to Italy's foremost Eurocrat?

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong 21 years into the 21st century and we have yet to nuke ourselves into extinction

Tuesday

02.02

Miriam Cates MP: we’re obsessed with what we can measure The Red Wall MP discusses her concerns over school closures

The transgender debate is tearing the SNP apart Joanna Cherry's card has probably been marked for some time

Free money or free school meals? There’s another option Technology may offer a third way

Monday

01.02

The myth of ‘Scouse not English’ Liverpool has long thought itself detached from the rest of England — but is it?

Stop explaining away pervy men as ‘structural sexism’ We need to be honest about today's sexual politics

Mary Harrington

The Proud Boys leader is not a noble savage Academics are turning to an old concept to explain Enrique Tarrio's sins

Friday

29.01

Special report: is closing schools immoral? Current and former teachers speak out on the true impact on children

Why the Government should lobotomise its ‘Treasury Brain’ No other advanced economy has sold off so much vital national infrastructure

Kate Bingham saved vaccines when Europe couldn’t It's best to avoid criticising someone when they're right

A public health campaign based on a pussy pun — really? MyGP's new campaign has got people talking for all the wrong reasons

Kristina Murkett

Thursday

28.01

The sliming of William Shawcross The new Independent Reviewer of Prevent faces bad-faith accusations

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy? Using animals as insults reinforces speciesism, according to PETA

The new reign of the imperious slay queen A reminder of how sycophantic America’s journalists are towards those in power

How the nationalists tweak their records to escape scrutiny Devolved administrations have a habit of making comparisons impossible

Wednesday

27.01

Gamestop is a classic Robin Hood tale Social media is empowering the anti-establishment current in American culture

George Monbiot’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ is a dangerous idea Some of my fellow lockdown hardliners are going off the deep end

Why is a Holocaust museum putting on a George Floyd exhibition? A universal progressive politics is influencing museums around the world

Tuesday

26.01

Football politics is already complicating this year’s Euros Who can — and will — host a Covid-secure tournament?

Jonathan Wilson

Are we about to witness a cloning boom? It's time we made cloning a major industry in the UK

Digital ghosts: the eerie next step in your customised world Microsoft's new patent could immortalise your personality long after death

Mary Harrington

Monday

25.01

Not dead yet: Conservatism in Wales is alive and kicking The narrative of decline and infighting is not based in reality

Xi Jinping addresses Davos — from a parallel universe The Chinese president made no mention of his country's pandemic response

What the British Left can learn from Denmark The Danish PM's 'zero asylum seekers' goal will neutralise the populist Right

40 years on from its creation, the SDP has another chance The Limehouse Declaration offered a different blueprint for governance

William Clouston

Friday

22.01

Lana Del Rey, Laschian conservative The singer echoes the late academic's distaste for the US's narcissistic culture

The Fire Brigades Union has nothing to apologise for Throughout the pandemic, firefighters have worked for the national interest

Joe Biden’s European conundrum Can a new president stop the EU and the USA drifting apart?

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project Will the hare-brained historical analogies ever stop?

Geoffrey Chaucer: a victim of the university diversity drive? My beloved old institution is not doing its students a service

The basic flaw in British Government No.10 is pathetically weak compared to other Western executives

Thursday

21.01

Latest infections data may be less gloomy than the headlines Gaps in the data mean that infections could have declined from the peak

Don’t dismiss Joe Biden on a single issue For all his faults, he will be better on women's rights than Trump was

Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my patriarchy lecture In his first interview, Will Knowland tells Freddie Sayers about his departure from the school

Does good taste excuse grand corruption? There's little difference between state malfeasance and national heritage

Wednesday

20.01

Tears everywhere at the departure of Trump The occasion proved all too much for the nation's best and brightest

The future looks bleak for Welsh Conservatism The party is confused by devolution, and embarrassed by its leader

Theo Davies-Lewis

Donald Trump’s 1776 Report is a comical own goal I’ve read Ladybird books with more complexity

Dominic Sandbrook

The two faces of Christianity in Joe Biden’s America The practising Catholic inherits a country divided by faith

Elizabeth Oldfield

Tuesday

19.01

Get ready for the age of long lockdowns Firmly entrenched as a public policy tool, lockdowns loom long into our futures

Yelling ‘transphobia’ is not an argument Activists don't want to debate a new book — they want to shut discussion down

Mark Drakeford has finally dropped the ball Poor vaccine management may spark a nascent anti-devolution movement

Monday

18.01

Wayne Rooney: Chaucerian hero Vulgarity played an important part in both men's careers

Stop fighting over street names Robert Jenrick's ideological battle with Birmingham Council is unnecessary