Theme: Groupthink

Total Results: 1515


Are Trump's chances being under- or over-played? Credit: Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty
September 18, 2020

Is Donald Trump toast? The pollsters Nate Silver, Doug Rivers and Robert Cahaly have radically different ideas about the coming election

Freddie Sayers

18.09

The BBC needs to sack the suits Timid and out of touch, it is churning out banal bulletins and screwing up digital output

Ian Birrell

Thursday
17.09

17.09

What cats taught me about philosophy By entering our world, our pet felines have given us a window looking out of it

John Gray

17.09

Confessions of a student Marxist It is hard not to conclude that a whole generation has been terribly misled about how best to pursue a life of meaning and resilience

Tobias Phibbs

Tuesday
15.09

15.09

Why are doctors leaving in droves? This historically stable, lucrative and prestigious profession is in critical condition

Louise Perry

15.09

How true crime romanticises murderers Des, the fascinating drama about Dennis Nilsen, finally gives his victims a voice

Tanya Gold

15.09

Enoch Powell, visionary As a new book notes, many of his most troubling predictions have indeed come to pass

Aris Roussinos

Monday
14.09

14.09

Matt Hancock’s ‘messaging’ is no better than Trump’s Fearmongering slogans like 'don't kill your gran' are the opposite of good political leadership

Freddie Sayers

14.09

What if the feminists had won? Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time

Mary Harrington

Friday
11.09

11.09

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response Blunt, panicky lockdowns across the continent are doing far more damage than the pandemic itself

Ian Birrell

11.09

Hollywood’s hapless diversity bid Driven by Darwinian levels of competition, it's the last place to enact an egalitarian experiment

Douglas Murray

11.09

What we meritocracy critics get wrong Selection by merit is not the problem — the overwhelming focus on academic intelligence is

David Goodhart