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Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question The billionaire gave a weirdly content-free statement to Devi Sridhar

Omicron update: London followed Gauteng after all Britain's most prestigious scientists managed to deny the obvious

Pieter Streicher

Tuesday, January 11

The Downing Street party was almost certainly illegal Some attendees could be convicted

Lords amendment on single-sex prisons withdrawn Women are vulnerable in the prison estate, but many still doesn't understand this

The roots of Novak Djokovic’s vaccine hesitancy The athlete's worldview was built from a lifetime of politics and faith

Italy’s vaccine mandate is purely political Mario Draghi is trying to pin his Government's failures on unvaxxed Italians

Monday, January 10

Where now for Kazakhstan’s dictator emeritus? He thrived for three decades, but Nursultan Nazerbayev's time has finally run out

David Bowie at 75: why Germany will remember him He is a crucial part of Cold War history

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s The former Brexit chief chooses to ignore Britain's productivity crisis

Labour’s support for indy candidates in Scotland will backfire Triangulating with the SNP is a tactical disaster

Repeat after me: Covid doesn’t spread on surfaces Will we ever move beyond outdated advice?

Friday, January 7

Novak Djokovic is Covid’s ritual sacrifice His punishment reassures the faithful that their struggle was not in vain

Park MacDougald

How many years behind the US is Britain? A new system tell us the answer — economically, at least

Police campaign paints terrorists as victims The latest counter-terrorism PR effort is frankly bizarre

The manufacturing of consensus Bodies like Stonewall are falsely creating an imprimatur of civil demand

Mary Harrington

Multiple scenes of police brutality at anti-lockdown protests in Holland Grim footage shows protestors being bitten by dogs and hit by batons

Thursday, January 6

It’s Valérie Pécresse, not Zemmour, that Macron fears Unlike the populists, the centre-Right candidate could assemble a coalition

In defence of the Colston Four verdict A jury’s power to acquit without giving reasons is a bulwark against tyranny

JK Rowling is no antisemite For most British Jews she is a heroine

Stephen Pollard

No, what happened on Jan 6 was not a coup A large, noisy and colourful gathering cannot possibly constitute a coup d'état

Wednesday, January 5

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022 For the first time in years, Labour has plausible alternatives

Tesla faces mounting complaints even as share price grows All is not smooth going at the world's most valuable car company

Philip Pilkington

Another set of panicked headlines about incels The media is determined to identify a new danger to society

‘Mass formation psychosis’ gets a warning from Google Robert Malone's mentioned it on Joe Rogan — so the search engine acted

Andrew Orlowski

Tuesday, January 4

What have Scotland and Wales’ Covid rules achieved? Not a lot, suggests the latest data

Norman Mailer is reaping the anti-whiteness he sowed The writer only has himself to blame for the cancellation of his work

Bitcoin is not worth the energy Why use renewables and wasted energy to power Ponzi schemes?

Danish health chiefs eye Sweden’s low Omicron rate Cases and deaths are dramatically lower than neighbours

Macron challenges Germany for EU dominance Energy is the latest strain on the Franco-German alliance

Monday, January 3

A win for common sense at the Girls’ Day School Trust The body deferred to established law, not Stonewall law

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview The correspondents' annual predictions say more about them than anything else

Friday, December 31

2021: Year in review with Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year