The symptoms for a common cold and Covid are very similar. Credit: Getty

17 Sep 2020 - 4:46pm

If your child has the sniffles, is it Covid or a cold?

Don’t recycle plastic. Burn it.

Does international law even exist?

Wednesday

16.09

Why are we racialising Beethoven?

Why fusionism failed

Tuesday

15.09

Even tribal Tories are baffled by the Rule of Six

Mary Harrington

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain

Monday

14.09

Don’t fall for the Venus life trap

The evidence for the ‘Rule of 6’ is not promising

Less likely than being struck by lightning? Think I’ll stay indoors

Friday

11.09

Full employment is making a timely comeback

The paranoid style in vaccine science

Thursday

10.09

Merlin Sheldrake: the philosophy of fungi

Why is the Manchester bomber’s praying not relevant?

Wednesday

09.09

Don’t call the new Brexit bill ‘illegal’. It isn’t.

Polly Mackenzie

Is Donald Trump toast?

Yes, women are suffering during Covid-19 — but it’s men who are dying…

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

08.09

Why aren’t my fellow socialists backing Boris on state aid?

Why I’m no longer talking to white liberals about race

Monday

07.09

Britain should embrace Canadian-style patriotism

On euthanasia, old Conservatives are the new radicals

Mary Harrington

Friday

04.09

The UBI debate exposes an ancient Christian division

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state

Thursday

03.09

Tyler Cowen on herd mentality and herd immunity

Spare me the outrage of the sex trade apologists

Sharia law is a threat to women everywhere

Wednesday

02.09

I used to be a ‘Right-wing comic’ — here’s what the BBC doesn’t get

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic?

Tuesday

01.09

America’s culture war is turning into a petty squabble

Mary Harrington

Johan Giesecke gets new role at WHO

Monday

31.08

There’s more to foreign news than US politics

Friday

28.08

Prof Michael Levitt: here’s what I got wrong