10/02/2020 - 1:00am

How hysterical leaders fail workers Health and safety regulations should be based on a sense of proportion — not the aim to eliminate all risk

Paul Embery

25.09

The empty cult of Captain Tom Our sentimental obsession with the war hero has more to do with failure than success

Tanya Gold

25.09

Why Covid can’t cancel Christmas There is much to be gained by knocking out of all the cheap commercial cheer

Giles Fraser

24.06

Was the two-metre rule one big lie? By covering up complexity with nice round numbers, public health officials treat us like children

Timandra Harkness

12.06

So where did Covid come from? It's not mere conspiracy theory to ask if this new coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab

Ian Birrell

28.05

Why we remember wars but forget plagues Art ignores pandemics because they're too boring, too horrific and too depressing

Sean Thomas

20.05

Our National Security Council is a joke It identified a pandemic as a serious risk to the country — and then didn't act on it

Tom Swarbrick

13.05

How apocalyptic is now? The sudden death of ways of life has been a regular occurrence throughout history

John Gray

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

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

27.04

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

Tom Holland

31.03

Why doesn’t Britain value its farmers? This crisis has shown we need to think very carefully about how the nation feeds itself

James Rebanks