January 27, 2021

Lockdowns don’t protect the elderly Generational conflict will define post-pandemic Britain

Jennie Bristow

25.01

Can a computer be moral? A new book about AI comes to an alarming conclusion

Timandra Harkness

21.01

Let Boris have a nap Why is the need for sleep seen as a sign of weakness?

Polly Mackenzie

20.01

What Covid tests can we trust? A ferocious row has broken out among scientists over the reliability of the lateral flow method

Tom Chivers

19.01

We need Scepticism more than ever In times of crisis we should encourage — not penalise — critical thinking

Freddie Sayers

18.01

How Germany came in from the cold A century and a half after unification, the Prussian aberration has lessons for today

James Hawes

18.01

Phil Spector’s fans are now free What can you do if the music you love has been made by a monster?

Sarah Ditum

15.01

Do you know how Covid really spreads? Government messaging on transmission has been unacceptably sluggish and timid

Stuart Ritchie

14.01

The dark roots of faddish food movements Our desire for self-sufficiency has a surprisingly unpalatable history

08.01

Don’t censor the lockdown sceptics Covid-era restrictions on what we can see and listen to are likely to outlast the disease

Douglas Murray

07.01

Whose weird world are we living in? Politics and reality feel connected by only the thinnest of threads

Mary Harrington

06.01

When will the online Thought Police come for you? Covid has escalated Silicon Valley's restrictions on speech

Andrew Doyle