Why would Boris Johnson want to "egg up" a virus that has cost more than 67,000 lives in the UK? Credit: Getty
12/22/2020 - 7:00am

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation The FT's former editor claimed that the PM egged up the Covid threat

Peter Franklin

Monday, December 21

21.12

I was 50 minutes from take-off when travel was banned Italian citizens returning home were left in the dark despite our negative tests

Beatrice Guzzardi

21.12

Even John Redwood now thinks our food system is broken Free-market fundamentalists are waking up to the importance of domestic farming

Aris Roussinos

21.12

Travel bans won’t stop the new Covid strain Targeted measures rather than general suppression are more important than ever

David Engelthaler

Friday, December 18

18.12

Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster Freddie Sayers spoke to Fredrik Elgh, a virologist at Umeå University in Northern Sweden

Freddie Sayers

18.12

Two cheers for Liz Truss She is right to call out identity politics, but it is not exclusively the Left's fault

Paul Embery

18.12

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first They should be subject to the same rules as everyone else

Peter Franklin

Thursday, December 17

17.12

Beware the Robespierres of Twitter In censoring anti-vax content, the tech giant is empowering online busybodies

Gavin Haynes

17.12

Will devoscepticism derail the Scottish Tories? Anti-devolution sentiment could thwart the party’s electoral hopes

Henry Hill

17.12

Has California’s day in the sun finished? The exodus of tech giants is creating a death spiral

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, December 16

16.12

Unconscious Bias Training is an empty PR drill It doesn’t improve outcomes for the people it’s supposed to help

Tom Chivers

16.12

Why has it taken so long to acknowledge coercive control? Finally, this extreme form of abuse is now being recognised in the courts

Julie Bindel

16.12

The trouble with the ‘intellectual porn star’ Hyper-liberalism has few winners, and Aella is one of them

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, December 15

15.12

Bill Barr, midwife to the dictatorship that was never born Trump's attorney general had no desire to bring authoritarianism to America


15.12

Meet Aella: the intellectual porn star Freddie Sayers discusses the morality of porn with one of OnlyFans' most successful creators

UnHerd

15.12

What explains the appeal of abandoned buildings? As the pandemic took hold, a fondness for romantic ruins grew

Jonathan Glancey

Monday, December 14

14.12

Christmas cancelled? Some alternative festival ideas… If Covid kills Christmas this year, perhaps we should go back to our pagan roots

Ed West

14.12

Boris Johnson is no English nationalist Just like his critics, the Prime Minister is only interested in British identity

John Denham

Sunday, December 13

13.12

The truth about that No 10 Covid briefing Attempts to prove that the PM favours a 'herd immunity strategy' don't wash

Freddie Sayers

Friday, December 11

11.12

Je ne Bregret rien We needed a crisis to break the stultifying deadlock of the past few decades

Aris Roussinos

11.12

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse It all comes down to the single currency

Peter Franklin

11.12

Your Christmas gifts are worth less than you think People are less good at buying things for other people than for themselves

Tom Chivers

Thursday, December 10

10.12

Unsurprisingly, Macron’s new anti-separatist law isn’t fascist Instead, it's a mild (but welcome) reinforcement of liberal, secular values

Liam Duffy

10.12

What really explains the Asia Covid exception? Scientists are investigating biological, rather than policy, differences

Freddie Sayers

10.12

Genomics expert: new Covid mutation was harder to control Freddie Sayers spoke to David Engelthaler, a gene specialist who has been tracking Covid-19

UnHerd

10.12

On the elite Left, there’s horror at patriotism of any kind Fintan O'Toole can't seem to bear that we are proud to be vaccinating

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, December 9

09.12

‘Fallen’ women need more than a temporary fix Stigma is pushing vulnerable young mums away from almshouse living

Louise Perry

09.12

Wanted: a female Jordan Peterson Toxic validation feels like a huge problem for women as well as men

Ed West

09.12

Now wokeness can make you sick Why is Cornell offering exemptions to vaccines based on ethnicity?

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, December 8

08.12

Must the Tate really cancel Rex Whistler? The gallery should not close the restaurant containing the artist's offensive mural

Jack Wakefield

08.12

Has Labour forgotten its Christian roots? Janet Daby's resignation highlights the party's secular drift

Dan Hitchens

08.12

Nick Clegg’s ‘global internet’ is a fantasy It's not only the Chinese who are unconvinced — the West increasingly is too

Ben Sixsmith