May 8, 2020

How we mythologise the Second World War The meaning of the conflict has been retconned, becoming the origin story for a new world

Niall Gooch

07.05

It’s worth taking a risk over Covid-19 The language of fear is counterproductive: let's have a grown-up debate about safety

Timandra Harkness

05.05

Covid is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity We need an A-team to heal our economy. And please, no more austerity

Peter Franklin

04.05

Covid-19 is hardening our borders The pandemic has brought out tribalism in even the most liberal societies

Tim Marshall

01.05

Since when did the Tories care about workers? Coronavirus seems to have parted politicians from their ideological traditions

Matthew Sweet

30.04

How China is exploiting pandemic panic Beijing is fighting to suppress a Covid-19 investigation — and to dominate the post-virus global order

Ian Birrell

28.04

Our government must learn to fail Big egos are getting in the way of effective experiments in policymaking

Peter Franklin

27.04

Has Boris had a sickbed conversion? Brushes with mortality can dramatically change political leaders — and not always for the better

Tom Holland

24.04

Can British media steer clear of the American sewer? Political TV hosts in America are obsequious, self-congratulatory and inadequate — let's not copy them

Douglas Murray

23.04

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown Amid Covid-19, this country has happily abandoned the freedom from which America was born

James Kirkup

22.04

Did anyone predict coronavirus? Hindsight makes it easy to blame the Government for listening to the wrong people, not the right ones

Tom Chivers

21.04

Will Gen Z recover from Covid? Zoomers will enter the workforce against the backdrop of both the Great Recession and the Great Lockdown

Matthew Goodwin