Section: Essay

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Seventy-five years on from the War, its meaning has changed (Photo by Gareth Copley/Gareth Copley)
05/08/2020 - 12:54pm

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

Thursday, May 7

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

Tuesday, May 5

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

Monday, May 4

04.05

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

Tim Marshall

Friday, May 1

01.05

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

Matthew Sweet

Thursday, April 30

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

Tuesday, April 28

28.04

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

Peter Franklin

Monday, April 27

27.04

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

Tom Holland

Friday, April 24

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

Thursday, April 23

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

Wednesday, April 22

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

Tuesday, April 21

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