Section: Essay

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June 10, 2020

Why the rich are revolting The Great Awokening and the 2020 protests are the product of growing radicalisation among the upper-middle-class

Ed West

Tuesday
09.06

09.06

Will the BLM protests cause a Covid spike? Those hoping to save black lives should bear in mind how likely they are to spread the virus

Tom Chivers

09.06

Dickens lives on in the streets of London The author's presence still haunts the city, 150 years after his death

Helen Thompson

Monday
08.06

08.06

Britain should stay out of Cold War II The battle will be between two rival dysfunctional systems: China vs America

Aris Roussinos

Friday
05.06

05.06

America is the greatest story ever told Ancient narratives continue to shape the assumptions and ideals of the United States

Tom Holland

Thursday
04.06

04.06

What Antifa and the alt-Right have in common Far from being posh kids playing at activism, the militant subsets are drawn from a precarious middle class

Mary Harrington

04.06

The Republican Party’s descent into darkness In 1968, the Right drove out the liberals. Now they're undermining democracy itself

Ian Birrell

Tuesday
02.06

02.06

Will there be a second Covid wave? It will be hard to track accurately the consequences of the lockdown loosening

Tom Chivers

Monday
01.06

01.06

Covid has exposed America as a failed state It's hard to view the US at this point as anything other than a cautionary tale

Aris Roussinos

Friday
29.05

29.05

Coronavirus doesn’t care about politics Government plans have always been one step behind the virus — test and trace won't change that

Freddie Sayers

29.05

The sad loss of our common rituals The history of Whit Monday has already vanished — and lockdown is eroding our common calendar further

Eleanor Parker

Thursday
28.05

28.05

Yesterday, the Beatles and why talent isn’t enough Richard Curtis ignores the fact that great artists are often in the right place at the right time

Dorian Lynskey