27 Jul 2020 - 1:10am

The trouble with abolishing prisons Could our justice system cope with the radical reform a new book proposes?

Adam King

27.07

Has lockdown broken old habits for good? Most of us are imitators not innovators: that’s why it takes a disaster to bring about change

Peter Franklin

24.07

The shock of the nude Portland's 'Naked Athena' makes a powerful image — but who does the power belong to?

Sarah Ditum

24.07

What Labour learned from a year of Boris The Left is still more obsessed with identity politics than finding ways to win back the working class

Paul Embery

24.07

Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden Anders Tegnell, architect of a unique response to the pandemic, defends his approach

Freddie Sayers

24.07

Who paved the way for the populists? Anne Applebaum's book ignores the real drivers of dissatisfaction with liberal democracy

James Bloodworth

24.07

Can German nationalism ever be normal? The rapid rise of the AfD has alarmed the country, and continent, for obvious reasons

Douglas Murray

23.07

What if Leave and Remain switched sides? Many Brexit voters would feel more at home in the EU than in the new Global Britain

Ed West

23.07

Our universities are dangerously reliant on China If Beijing calls for a boycott, some of our most prestigious institutions could fall

Will Tanner

23.07

Have I become a bourgeois cliche? My lockdown obsession with fine wine has refocused my attention on life's important little details

Giles Fraser

23.07

Imagine a world without contraception A shortage of birth control could be embraced as an easy solution to shrinking populations

Mary Harrington

22.07

A cautionary tale for today’s ‘woke’ movement A superb film about the NYT man who lied for Stalin casts light on today's cultural convulsions

John Gray