The case for lockdowns Dr Natalie Dean talks to Freddie Sayers

The new battle line in libertarian thought Covid has pitched the rationalists against the visceralists

Tuesday

12.05

Who are the corona tribes? Even as Covid turns our world upside down, polarisation is creeping back

Are the young turning into progressive authoritarians? A recent poll seems to suggest so...

Memo to the Government: we don’t all live in zones 1 to 4 For most people, the office isn't a cycle-ride away

Mary Harrington

Monday

11.05

Is Boris extending an olive branch to Putin? As UK-China relations sour, Moscow beckons

Why are we placing high-risk trans sex offenders in women’s prisons? It creates a dangerous environment for female inmates

‘Stay alert’ is not precise — but it is meaningful Those who conflate the two are being disingenuous

Friday

08.05

Newsnight turns Covid-sceptic An investigation from the BBC programme implies that lockdown may have been an overreaction

How much is a human life worth? A Telegraph columnist has tried to put a figure on it

Thursday

07.05

To the cafe tables, comrades — bring on the al fresco revolution Let's rediscover streets as beautiful places for business and pleasure

Nicholas Boys Smith

Has Germany just blown up the Eurozone? The most important story of the week was buried in pages of Deutsche legalese

Wednesday

06.05

I told you so! 100,000 tests was a foolish target A classic case of Goodhart's Law...

Do not let a brilliant thinker like Benedict fall silent He remains a valuable source of wisdom in the Catholic world

The FT’s shameful false equivalence on America and China Gideon Rachman makes a series of dubious claims in his latest column

Tuesday

05.05

Welcome to the struggle, Comrade Bray The Amazon vice-president's resignation is a reminder of the company's dark side

James Bloodworth

German virologist: Covid-19 is less deadly than feared Professor Hendrik Streeck's findings show a fatality rate of 0.24-0.36%

The trade unions are back in the driving seat Worker groups are going to play a powerful role in our exit from lockdown

The hidden culture war behind Michael Gove’s bookshelf Both sides in this stupid argument are barking up the wrong tree

Mary Harrington

Monday

04.05

Not now please, Universal Basic Income enthusiasts Government needs to be able to direct spending power to where it's needed most

Let priests pray in their churches It is an act of defiance against C-19

Saturday

02.05

Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential Professor Michael Levitt has been following the numbers

Friday

01.05

The C of E has retreated to the kitchen The Church has lost confidence in its own values

Can we have a grown-up conversation about free trade? I have to take issue with Daniel Hannan...

Thursday

30.04

Thomas Sowell’s ‘conflict of visions’ — epidemiology edition Johan Giesecke and Neil Ferguson embody the philosopher's two competing world views

Stop obsessing over the 100,000 test target The Government should never have mentioned this arbitrary goal

Will the pandemic simplify our lives? It's an attractive but extremely wishful idea

Wednesday

29.04

Yanis Varoufakis on Covid-19, Brexit and the trouble with Keir Starmer Freddie Sayers speaks to the former Greek finance minister

Why no mention of marriage in the domestic violence debate? Lockdown has put the politics of home in the spotlight

Johan Giesecke stands firm: death rates in Sweden will go down The Swedish professor responds to our Neil Ferguson interview

Michael Moore turns on the Green Movement The Left-wing filmmaker has caused a stir in liberal circles

Tuesday

28.04

The Guardian’s paranoid anti-nationalism The paper makes a less-than-convincing case about who — or what — is to blame for the crisis

The tragic hubris of modern city planning A new book shows how post-war cities are turning into ghost towns

Monday

27.04

Will Covid kill neoliberalism? Freddie Sayers speaks to Thomas Fazi and Julian Jessop

Is anorexia wired into our moral foundations? Modern day eating disorders might share the same roots as medieval asceticism

Mary Harrington

A post-Kim Korea is a dangerous proposition The demise of a dictator rarely turns a country into a flowering democracy

Saturday

25.04

Imperial’s Neil Ferguson defends lockdown strategy Freddie Sayers speaks to the British epidemiologist on today's episode of Lockdown TV

Friday

24.04

Don’t let the bean-counters abolish our army regiments Military subdivision describes the basis of our wider moral solidarity

Bim Afolami: the sacred has found its way into politics Like it or not, the Left and Right are acquiring a religious fervour

Elizabeth Oldfield

Should we all go Amish for the NHS? There's a lot we can learn from this religious minority

Thursday

23.04

US Entrepreneurs call for easing of lockdown Freddie Sayers chats to JetBlue founder David Neeleman and Second Home co-founder Rohan Silva

Beware of Covid confimation bias The pandemic has unleashed a torrent of conflicting evidence

Meet Claire Ainsley, Keir Starmer’s intriguing new Head of Policy The appointment hints at a more radical break from Corbynism

Far-Right Catholics blame the Pope for Covid A new Italian documentary lays bare the hatred felt towards Francis

Wednesday

22.04

Will a desperate EU resort to ‘perpetual bonds’? Financier George Soros makes a far-fetched proposal...

The Groypers’ new battleground: TikTok The American far-Right youth movement is targeting Zoomers

Tuesday

21.04

Don’t let the word ‘lesbian’ go out of fashion We fought for years to make it a word we could wear with pride

The poison in the veins of the global economy We should see crude oil for what it truly is

Should home schooling be banned? A law professor argues that it abandons children ideologically

Mary Harrington

Monday

20.04

If Britain is becoming a ‘one-party state’, blame Labour At some point the Left will have to stop blaming the winners

Do I have a moral duty to lose weight? To protect the NHS, I'm on a lockdown diet

Swedish epidemiologist interview goes global Our interview with Prof Johan Giesecke has been viewed over 500,000 times

Saturday

18.04

How royal mistresses beefed in the 17th century Without Twitter, Charles II's lovers had to get creative

Mary Harrington

Friday

17.04

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy Freddie Sayers speaks to Professor Johan Giesecke, who says that our policy is not driven by evidence

What does it mean to be a liberal? When it became an adjective as well as a noun, the word's definition got out of hand

Covid-19 is giving me weird dreams What's more, it seems to be a worldwide phenomenon

Thursday

16.04

Catch-up: Alastair Campbell and Maajid Nawaz on the media The pair discuss how the English press has performed during the pandemic

Why did the New York Times bury its own Covid story? A leaked PowerPoint slide indicates that corona infection fatality rate is lower than estimated

Stopping fertility treatment will also cost lives As procedures are abruptly halted, thousands of babies will not now be born

Wednesday

15.04

Covid is the common enemy we’ve been searching for The virus has united the country and in doing so, made us all a little emotional

The Brits’ love-hate relationship with lockdown This country has a complicated attitude to authority

The West is becoming like China, not the other way round Formerly free-market nations are turning to state capitalism in reponse to the crisis

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

14.04

Who says a Covid recession would mean more people dead? Historically, economic downturns have led to a fall in deaths, not a rise

The week that coronavirus became visible New data out this morning shows that total deaths in the week ending 3 April were dramatically higher than normal

Saturday

11.04

Teach children knowledge — not critical thinking Without background information of a topic, comprehension will be limited even for the most able reader

Mary Harrington

Friday

10.04

WATCH: Andrew Adonis on the costs of the lockdown The Labour peer tells Freddie Sayers that we need a more rational debate

Nicky Gumbel’s Confessions Giles sits down with the Anglican priest and pioneer of the Alpha course to talk family, faith and doubt

Is air pollution making the pandemic worse? There's mounting evidence that it leaves us more vulnerable to the virus

Thursday

09.04

Beware unchecked scientific theories about Covid Due to these strange times, the scientific community is putting out unverified hypotheses at double rate

Joe Biden didn’t win, Bernie lost The Vermont Senator didn't even win the battle of ideas among the Democratic base

Virtual Seder was almost as good as the real thing But nothing will replace the physical togetherness of Judaism and Christianity

Wednesday

08.04

The strange symbolism of the Queen and Boris Helen Thompson and Matthew Sweet reflect on a revealing week for our country

Give NHS workers hazard pay Nurses and doctors should be compensated for risking their lives on the frontline

Why certain Right-wingers thirst for secret knowledge Esoteric belief systems can offer the ideologues a degree of exclusivity

Finally! The government recognises childcare as work New rules say that people can be furloughed if they can't work due to caring responsibilities

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

07.04

Catch-up: Lockdown TV, Day 15 Featuring Dominic Frisby on home schooling and Gavin Haynes on Traditionalism

Boris in the ICU makes this crisis too much to bear If the PM can be reduced to this, it emphasises how fragile our country is

False cures for Covid-19 are endangering my health My access to hydroxychloroquine has been jeopardised since its rise to fame

Do conservative Catholics get fair trials? Cardinal Pell had many enemies in Australia

Has the FT really changed its mind on capitalism? An editorial called time on four decades of neoliberal policy

Monday

06.04

Weirdo conservatives were the first to spot the Covid threat The Right is a particular combination of highly intelligent and quite stupid

To relieve our parks, open the golf courses We need more public space to get through this, not less