Why Viktor Orban chooses China over the EU The CCP's imperialism comes with fewer strings attached

Mary Harrington

Adam Wagner: are lockdowns a threat to human rights? The human rights lawyer gave Freddie Sayers a sobering assessment

Michael Gove’s three point plan for tackling wokeness Channelling Sir Roger Scruton, the minister offered some sage advice

Saturday

16.01

The election of Armin Laschet is deeply worrying The new CDU chairman has shown a soft-heartedness for autocratic regimes

Friday

15.01

Stop stat-shaming the public Telling the public that they're ignorant is not a way to convince them

Don’t let elite universities drop their entry requirements As a disadvantaged student, I wanted to prove I could get the top grades

Weimar analogies miss the point of America’s turbulence The violent rise of QAnon is an anthropological, not historical, phenomenon

Thursday

14.01

What explains the Germany Covid surge? Infection rates are soaring at a rate far higher than in the first wave

The most important economic trend in the world today The collapse of interest rates isn't a weird anomaly — it's here to stay

No, elite overproduction does not cause social unrest Jobless graduates are a human tragedy, not a recipe for political strife

Wednesday

13.01

Donald Trump was America’s first post-modern President Taking him literally or seriously is beside the point — it's all just narrative

Source: Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at odds over SNP strategy The PM is said to be against devolving more powers

Don’t count Josh Hawley out The senator is the object of enormous hatred and fear, but all may not be lost

Tuesday

12.01

Does the Government still care about levelling up? The social fabric of our nation is fraying — it needs to be urgently addressed

Roger Scruton taught me how to live with my disability I understood the late philosopher's emphasis on limits more than most

Do similar gender roles always constitute “progress”? A new paper looked at farming practices in arid regions — with surprising results

Mary Harrington

Monday

11.01

There’s a world beyond China and the EU A Chatham House report on Britain's international role is condescending

I volunteer at a vaccine centre, and I’m worried Without better management, these could become superspreader events

After Twitter, where will Donald Trump go next? He has a number of options, none of which are perfect

Saturday

09.01

The Twitter purge moves us closer to a civilisational internet Europeans urgently need to decouple from American political chaos

Friday

08.01

Fox News starts to pivot away from Donald Trump Rupert Murdoch's retreat from Trumpism could unleash an epic conflict

Why funny men are the most dangerous What starts as comedy often ends in tragedy

Remote learning? 1.8m children don’t have a laptop Digital poverty is bleaker than ever, and the government still has no answer

Kristina Murkett

Thursday

07.01

No, what happened in the Capitol was not a coup Wednesday's insurrection may even prove beneficial to the United States

Will the New York Times commission Senator Cotton now? The Republican is sticking to his law and order message

How to make American democracy more democratic I’ve got a better idea than abolishing the electoral college

Wednesday

06.01

Jonathan Haidt: the political chaos isn’t over yet Freddie Sayers asks the author and moral psychologist if the principles of The Righteous Mind still stand

Is our pace of vaccination slowing down? The latest number announced by the PM was disappointing

50 million jabs by March — it’s possible, and necessary Fatalism around the vaccine rollout isn't just wrong, it's unwarranted

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday

05.01

The SNP is trespassing on Westminster’s turf The Party has found a new way to undermine Britain’s global position

The Merchant of Venice deserves to be cancelled It's hardly 'political correctness gone mad' to say the play is anti-Semitic

Monday

04.01

Boris Johnson fails the marshmallow test Time and again, this government fails to take action when needed

Why did the Chinese Communist Party turn on Jack Ma? A brutal struggle is taking place over where power lies in China's digital economy

Mary Harrington

Bring back Tony Blair! Only the former PM seems to appreciate that we are in a wartime emergency

Friday

01.01

Careful, Michael Sheen — Wales likes its Prince Welsh nationalists ignore the monarchy's popularity at their peril

Theo Davies-Lewis

Don’t pity the pornographers When moral arguments are tied to power, careers are ruined — in both directions

Mary Harrington

Thursday

31.12

With the China deal, the EU falls back to hard realpolitik Europe is not taking sides in the coming great power struggle

Wednesday

30.12

Ian Blackford’s shoddy history and clumsy myth-making The SNP leader's Commons speech was riddled with inaccuracies

What’s the real cost of sending kids back to school? With days to go, the government needs to come clean on their reasoning

How the UK can speed up the vaccine rollout The Government can’t afford to get the supply and delivery wrong

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday

29.12

Why the Twitter pitchforks came for me over an NHS statistic Insecurity over inconvenient facts quickly leads to anger and a mob mentality

Call the Midwife deals with diversity in the right way Unlike The Vicar of Dibley, there is no clumsy attempt to insert a woke message

Monday

28.12

Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be? Freddie Sayers spoke to journalist and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald, who gave an unsettling answer

Ten ways this year could have been worse If we’re lucky, 2020 will be the worst year of the 21st century

Saturday

26.12

Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible The Professor has given an extraordinary interview to The Times

Friday

25.12

Tom Holland: the real reason why Christmas is today The author and historian on how December 25th came to be the chosen date

Christmas cancelled? Here’s why you should party like It’s 1656 'Tis the season for a 'festive' throwback

Timandra Harkness

Thursday

24.12

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas The original, bleaker, version of the song feels more appropriate for this year

Wednesday

23.12

Tom Holland: Is it Christian to cancel Christmas? Freddie Sayers spoke to the historian about the religious impulse behind it

This Christmas, bittersweet ‘hiraeth’ spreads far beyond Wales This Welsh word captures the all-encompassing longing for home

Theo Davies-Lewis

Tuesday

22.12

Critical race theory must be resisted in our universities Dividing people by skin colour rarely leads to positive outcomes

Trump’s architectural decree is half right The best way back to beautiful buildings is to involve the public

Nicholas Boys Smith

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation The FT's former editor claimed that the PM egged up the Covid threat

Monday

21.12

I was 50 minutes from take-off when travel was banned Italian citizens returning home were left in the dark despite our negative tests

Beatrice Guzzardi

Even John Redwood now thinks our food system is broken Free-market fundamentalists are waking up to the importance of domestic farming

Travel bans won’t stop the new Covid strain Targeted measures rather than general suppression are more important than ever

David Engelthaler

Friday

18.12

Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster Freddie Sayers spoke to Fredrik Elgh, a virologist at Umeå University in Northern Sweden

Two cheers for Liz Truss She is right to call out identity politics, but it is not exclusively the Left's fault

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first They should be subject to the same rules as everyone else

Thursday

17.12

Beware the Robespierres of Twitter In censoring anti-vax content, the tech giant is empowering online busybodies

Will devoscepticism derail the Scottish Tories? Anti-devolution sentiment could thwart the party’s electoral hopes

Has California’s day in the sun finished? The exodus of tech giants is creating a death spiral

Wednesday

16.12

Unconscious Bias Training is an empty PR drill It doesn’t improve outcomes for the people it’s supposed to help

Why has it taken so long to acknowledge coercive control? Finally, this extreme form of abuse is now being recognised in the courts

The trouble with the ‘intellectual porn star’ Hyper-liberalism has few winners, and Aella is one of them

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

15.12

Bill Barr, midwife to the dictatorship that was never born Trump's attorney general had no desire to bring authoritarianism to America

Meet Aella: the intellectual porn star Freddie Sayers discusses the morality of porn with one of OnlyFans' most successful creators

What explains the appeal of abandoned buildings? As the pandemic took hold, a fondness for romantic ruins grew

Jonathan Glancey

Monday

14.12

Christmas cancelled? Some alternative festival ideas… If Covid kills Christmas this year, perhaps we should go back to our pagan roots

Boris Johnson is no English nationalist Just like his critics, the Prime Minister is only interested in British identity

Sunday

13.12

The truth about that No 10 Covid briefing Attempts to prove that the PM favours a 'herd immunity strategy' don't wash

Friday

11.12

Je ne Bregret rien We needed a crisis to break the stultifying deadlock of the past few decades

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse It all comes down to the single currency

Your Christmas gifts are worth less than you think People are less good at buying things for other people than for themselves

Thursday

10.12

Unsurprisingly, Macron’s new anti-separatist law isn’t fascist Instead, it's a mild (but welcome) reinforcement of liberal, secular values

What really explains the Asia Covid exception? Scientists are investigating biological, rather than policy, differences

Genomics expert: new Covid mutation was harder to control Freddie Sayers spoke to David Engelthaler, a gene specialist who has been tracking Covid-19

On the elite Left, there’s horror at patriotism of any kind Fintan O'Toole can't seem to bear that we are proud to be vaccinating

Wednesday

09.12

‘Fallen’ women need more than a temporary fix Stigma is pushing vulnerable young mums away from almshouse living

Wanted: a female Jordan Peterson Toxic validation feels like a huge problem for women as well as men

Now wokeness can make you sick Why is Cornell offering exemptions to vaccines based on ethnicity?

Tuesday

08.12

Must the Tate really cancel Rex Whistler? The gallery should not close the restaurant containing the artist's offensive mural