Month: December 2020

Total Results: 98

December 25, 2020

The myth of ‘pagan’ Christmas Why does the idea that this Christian festival was stolen from heathen tradition persist?

Thursday

24.12

Life on the Cornish breadline No one smiles in the foodshares except the volunteers, who grin brightly

How will you remember this year? Good Grief: Embracing Life At A Time of Death: Two grieving wives share their experience of loss

Polly Mackenzie

Harry Potter fans need to grow up The Boy Who Lived hit 40 this year, but the books' binary worldview hasn't aged well

Wednesday

23.12

Libertarianism never ends well A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear: An experiment in living without restrictions couldn't survive some hungry bears

Mary Harrington

O come, all ye faithless The drive to create sacred music isn't always born of unswerving belief

Why the Irish border still troubles Britain A century ago Ireland was partitioned between South and North. The legacy still haunts both islands

Charles Townshend

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

Tuesday

22.12

Who’s behind Marcus Rashford? The combination of social justice, sport and celebrity is a lucrative one

So what if Trump pardons himself? The outgoing president will face legal challenges regardless of whether or not he lets himself off the hook

Autism isn’t always a superpower Not all 'neurodivergent' people have the capacity to change the world

The inconvenient truth about transwomen Self-identification puts women, children — and trans people themselves — at risk