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

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