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02/03/2021 - 7:00am

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong 21 years into the 21st century and we have yet to nuke ourselves into extinction

Tuesday, February 2

Miriam Cates MP: we’re obsessed with what we can measure The Red Wall MP discusses her concerns over school closures

The transgender debate is tearing the SNP apart Joanna Cherry's card has probably been marked for some time

Free money or free school meals? There’s another option Technology may offer a third way

Monday, February 1

The myth of ‘Scouse not English’ Liverpool has long thought itself detached from the rest of England — but is it?

Stop explaining away pervy men as ‘structural sexism’ We need to be honest about today's sexual politics

Mary Harrington

The Proud Boys leader is not a noble savage Academics are turning to an old concept to explain Enrique Tarrio's sins

Friday, January 29

Special report: is closing schools immoral? Current and former teachers speak out on the true impact on children

Why the Government should lobotomise its ‘Treasury Brain’ No other advanced economy has sold off so much vital national infrastructure

Kate Bingham saved vaccines when Europe couldn’t It's best to avoid criticising someone when they're right

A public health campaign based on a pussy pun — really? MyGP's new campaign has got people talking for all the wrong reasons

Kristina Murkett

Thursday, January 28

The sliming of William Shawcross The new Independent Reviewer of Prevent faces bad-faith accusations

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy? Using animals as insults reinforces speciesism, according to PETA

The new reign of the imperious slay queen A reminder of how sycophantic America’s journalists are towards those in power

How the nationalists tweak their records to escape scrutiny Devolved administrations have a habit of making comparisons impossible

Wednesday, January 27

Gamestop is a classic Robin Hood tale Social media is empowering the anti-establishment current in American culture

George Monbiot’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ is a dangerous idea Some of my fellow lockdown hardliners are going off the deep end

Why is a Holocaust museum putting on a George Floyd exhibition? A universal progressive politics is influencing museums around the world

Tuesday, January 26

Football politics is already complicating this year’s Euros Who can — and will — host a Covid-secure tournament?

Jonathan Wilson

Are we about to witness a cloning boom? It's time we made cloning a major industry in the UK

Digital ghosts: the eerie next step in your customised world Microsoft's new patent could immortalise your personality long after death

Mary Harrington

Monday, January 25

Not dead yet: Conservatism in Wales is alive and kicking The narrative of decline and infighting is not based in reality

Xi Jinping addresses Davos — from a parallel universe The Chinese president made no mention of his country's pandemic response

What the British Left can learn from Denmark The Danish PM's 'zero asylum seekers' goal will neutralise the populist Right

40 years on from its creation, the SDP has another chance The Limehouse Declaration offered a different blueprint for governance

William Clouston

Friday, January 22

Lana Del Rey, Laschian conservative The singer echoes the late academic's distaste for the US's narcissistic culture

The Fire Brigades Union has nothing to apologise for Throughout the pandemic, firefighters have worked for the national interest

Joe Biden’s European conundrum Can a new president stop the EU and the USA drifting apart?

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project Will the hare-brained historical analogies ever stop?

Geoffrey Chaucer: a victim of the university diversity drive? My beloved old institution is not doing its students a service

The basic flaw in British Government No.10 is pathetically weak compared to other Western executives

Thursday, January 21

Latest infections data may be less gloomy than the headlines Gaps in the data mean that infections could have declined from the peak