Section: Spotlight

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She's seen them through so many crisis. Credit: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP via Getty Images
May 25, 2020

What is the Mona Lisa worth to France? Flogging the beloved artwork for the sake of a few billion euros would be a national disgrace

Agnes Poirier

Thursday
21.05

21.05

The world’s next jihadi flashpoint The West's neglect of the Sahel could come back to bite us

Will Brown

Wednesday
20.05

20.05

Can university survive Covid-19? Academics have long argued that the computer can never replace the classroom

Gerard DeGroot

Tuesday
19.05

19.05

Lockdown won’t end the war on drugs Covid-19 is nothing more than a temporary inconvenience for the global drug trade

Antony Loewenstein

Monday
18.05

18.05

How Texas is coping with the end of lockdown There is no nuance: you are either a heartless death-spreader or a virtuous stay-at-home mask-wearer

Daniel Kalder

Wednesday
13.05

13.05

Let’s stop pretending we love our jobs Even before Covid-19 struck, 'lifestyle' work was losing its lustre. Now it's dead and buried

Eliza Filby

Tuesday
12.05

12.05

Why are minorities so hard hit by Covid-19? A combination of social conditions and health factors has turned coronavirus into a disaster for black and Asian Britons

Saloni Dattani

Monday
11.05

11.05

Will Covid spell the end of city life? Small towns are an increasingly attractive alternative to unsustainable urban centres

Barney Norris

Friday
08.05

08.05

Not every death is a tragedy We object to to the 'herd immunity' policy because we like to pretend everyone can live forever

Mary Harrington

08.05

Pity the lustful in lockdown Persistent thoughts of death lead to insistent thoughts of sex — just look at Neil Ferguson

Rowan Pelling

Thursday
07.05

07.05

Why doesn’t my son matter? As lockdown struck, my apparently worthless child was abandoned by the Government

Lucy Parr

Wednesday
06.05

06.05

Morrissey: lunatic seer of the modern world Immigration, wet markets, the plight of the working class: he's always ahead of the curve

Gareth Roberts