Theme: Groupthink

Total Results: 1515


The Tories' new mantra is: Protect the NHS. Credit: Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images
1 May 2020 - 1:10am

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

Matthew Sweet

Thursday, 30 April

30.04

What sort of sexist are you? The superficial niceness of benevolent sexism allows boys to hang onto it more easily

Sarah Ditum

Tuesday, 28 April

28.04

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

Peter Franklin

28.04

Factory learning is crushing our kids Lockdown is an opportunity to learn that leisure is not the enemy of education

Roy Peachey

Monday, 27 April

27.04

Which epidemiologist do you believe? The debate about lockdown is not a contest between good and evil

Freddie Sayers

Wednesday, 22 April

22.04

What’s the world’s greatest spectator sport? <i>University Challenge</i> is a truer test of character than kicking a football round a field

Simon Evans

Friday, 17 April

17.04

What did Playboy ever do for women? Most things pertaining to sex should be viewed in the context of their times

Rowan Pelling

Wednesday, 15 April

15.04

Why did Boris Johnson survive? The legend of the Prime Minister vs the Virus could shape the way we do politics

James Kirkup

Tuesday, 14 April

14.04

Don’t put too much faith in Covid-19 metrics Facts and figures are vital to fighting the pandemic, but they can also be hugely misleading

Tom Chivers

Monday, 13 April

13.04

Why do we all still love CS Lewis? A writer who should be unfashionable continues to defy the fate of so many contemporaries

Michael Coren

Tuesday, 7 April

07.04

Corbyn, Trump and other freaks of history Why Jeremy Corbyn isn’t the Obi-Wan Kenobi of British politics

Peter Franklin

Monday, 6 April

06.04

Woody Allen’s brilliant betrayal If you want to know about the man, don't read the autobiography — watch the films

Tanya Gold