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01/08/2021 - 4:37pm

Fox News starts to pivot away from Donald Trump Rupert Murdoch's retreat from Trumpism could unleash an epic conflict


08.01

Why funny men are the most dangerous What starts as comedy often ends in tragedy

Ed West

08.01

Remote learning? 1.8m children don’t have a laptop Digital poverty is bleaker than ever, and the government still has no answer

Kristina Murkett

Thursday, January 7

07.01

No, what happened in the Capitol was not a coup Wednesday's insurrection may even prove beneficial to the United States

Edward Luttwak

07.01

Will the New York Times commission Senator Cotton now? The Republican is sticking to his law and order message

James Billot

07.01

How to make American democracy more democratic I’ve got a better idea than abolishing the electoral college

Daniel Baer

Wednesday, January 6

06.01

Jonathan Haidt: the political chaos isn’t over yet Freddie Sayers asks the author and moral psychologist if the principles of The Righteous Mind still stand

UnHerd

06.01

Is our pace of vaccination slowing down? The latest number announced by the PM was disappointing

Freddie Sayers

06.01

50 million jabs by March — it’s possible, and necessary Fatalism around the vaccine rollout isn't just wrong, it's unwarranted

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday, January 5

05.01

The SNP is trespassing on Westminster’s turf The Party has found a new way to undermine Britain’s global position

Henry Hill

05.01

The Merchant of Venice deserves to be cancelled It's hardly 'political correctness gone mad' to say the play is anti-Semitic


Monday, January 4

04.01

Boris Johnson fails the marshmallow test Time and again, this government fails to take action when needed

Tom Chivers

04.01

Why did the Chinese Communist Party turn on Jack Ma? A brutal struggle is taking place over where power lies in China's digital economy

Mary Harrington

04.01

Bring back Tony Blair! Only the former PM seems to appreciate that we are in a wartime emergency

Ed West

Friday, January 1

01.01

Careful, Michael Sheen — Wales likes its Prince Welsh nationalists ignore the monarchy's popularity at their peril

Theo Davies-Lewis

01.01

Don’t pity the pornographers When moral arguments are tied to power, careers are ruined — in both directions

Mary Harrington

Thursday, December 31

31.12

With the China deal, the EU falls back to hard realpolitik Europe is not taking sides in the coming great power struggle

Aris Roussinos

Wednesday, December 30

30.12

Ian Blackford’s shoddy history and clumsy myth-making The SNP leader's Commons speech was riddled with inaccuracies

Henry Hill

30.12

What’s the real cost of sending kids back to school? With days to go, the government needs to come clean on their reasoning

Tom Chivers

30.12

How the UK can speed up the vaccine rollout The Government can’t afford to get the supply and delivery wrong

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday, December 29

29.12

Why the Twitter pitchforks came for me over an NHS statistic Insecurity over inconvenient facts quickly leads to anger and a mob mentality

Paul Embery

29.12

Call the Midwife deals with diversity in the right way Unlike The Vicar of Dibley, there is no clumsy attempt to insert a woke message

Louise Perry

Monday, December 28

28.12

Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be? Freddie Sayers spoke to journalist and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald, who gave an unsettling answer

Freddie Sayers

28.12

Ten ways this year could have been worse If we’re lucky, 2020 will be the worst year of the 21st century

Peter Franklin

Saturday, December 26

26.12

Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible The Professor has given an extraordinary interview to The Times

Freddie Sayers

Friday, December 25

25.12

Tom Holland: the real reason why Christmas is today The author and historian on how December 25th came to be the chosen date

UnHerd

25.12

Christmas cancelled? Here’s why you should party like It’s 1656 'Tis the season for a 'festive' throwback

Timandra Harkness

Thursday, December 24

24.12

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas The original, bleaker, version of the song feels more appropriate for this year

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, December 23

23.12

Tom Holland: Is it Christian to cancel Christmas? Freddie Sayers spoke to the historian about the religious impulse behind it

Freddie Sayers

23.12

This Christmas, bittersweet ‘hiraeth’ spreads far beyond Wales This Welsh word captures the all-encompassing longing for home

Theo Davies-Lewis

Tuesday, December 22

22.12

Critical race theory must be resisted in our universities Dividing people by skin colour rarely leads to positive outcomes

Philip Hammond

22.12

Trump’s architectural decree is half right The best way back to beautiful buildings is to involve the public

Nicholas Boys Smith