04/08/2020 - 3:44pm

Give NHS workers hazard pay Nurses and doctors should be compensated for risking their lives on the frontline

Why certain Right-wingers thirst for secret knowledge Esoteric belief systems can offer the ideologues a degree of exclusivity

Finally! The government recognises childcare as work New rules say that people can be furloughed if they can't work due to caring responsibilities

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, April 7

Catch-up: Lockdown TV, Day 15 Featuring Dominic Frisby on home schooling and Gavin Haynes on Traditionalism

Boris in the ICU makes this crisis too much to bear If the PM can be reduced to this, it emphasises how fragile our country is

False cures for Covid-19 are endangering my health My access to hydroxychloroquine has been jeopardised since its rise to fame

Do conservative Catholics get fair trials? Cardinal Pell had many enemies in Australia

Has the FT really changed its mind on capitalism? An editorial called time on four decades of neoliberal policy

Monday, April 6

Weirdo conservatives were the first to spot the Covid threat The Right is a particular combination of highly intelligent and quite stupid

To relieve our parks, open the golf courses We need more public space to get through this, not less

The Queen calls time on the snowflake generation She is right that this crisis is re-kindling fellow feeling

Saturday, April 4

What is the future for America Inc.? The Covid pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

Friday, April 3

Lockdown TV, Day 11 Featuring Paul Embery on Labour and corona-tyrants, and Giles Fraser and Mary Harrington post-liberal instincts

GPs should not play God during Covid If there are no medical issues at stake, doctors have no right to decide what lives are worth saving

The Orban decree is scary — but it’s about more than trans rights Progressives need to unite against the Orban threat, not point the finger at feminists

As a Tottenham Hotspur fan, I’m ashamed We should emulate other European teams' response to the crisis

Why are so many Italian doctors dying? Thus far, 77 have died

Thursday, April 2

Peter Hitchens on Coronavirus The columnist discusses his Covid scepticism with Freddie Sayers

A glimpse inside a virus-testing laboratory My correspondent reveals some surprisingly mundane sources of delay

Covid is killing the black market — maybe that’s a bad thing There could be violent consequences

CATCH UP: Lockdown TV, day 9 Featuring Tom Chivers on Corona, and Rowan Pelling and Louise Perry on the problem of porn

Wednesday, April 1

We’re going to need a new name for the Great Recession What we face now is so much worse than 2008

Is there a racism epidemic in America? Based on how much people have spoken about it in recent years, you'd think so

The culture wars are far from over Covid-19 marks a ceasefire, not anything like an end

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, March 31

WATCH: the view from Sweden on their coronavirus response Analysts Johan Anderberg and Paulina Neuding discuss Sweden's laissez-faire approach

A grim milestone for the UK epidemic New data from the ONS shows that deaths per week just moved above average

Will coronavirus kill the shale revolution? With oil at $20 a barrel, the industry is struggling to survive

Monday, March 30

LISTEN: Lord Sumption on the national ‘hysteria’ over coronavirus The former Supreme Court judge warned that Britain was turning into a police state

What Emmanuel Levinas would have to say about Zoom The French philosopher argued that ethics is rooted in the face-to-face encounter

Let Brits pick their own fruit! Flying 90,000 migrants to the UK in the middle of a pandemic would be utterly mad

Saturday, March 28

What the West can learn from China East Asian systems of hierarchy have wisdom in them

Mary Harrington

Friday, March 27

Why do these epidemics always start in China? Many pandemics start in Asia because that is where most humans live