03/27/2020 - 11:46am

Secularists have reached a new low They are trying to poison inter-faith relations

I miss the culture warriors I want to go back to a society where problems are invented

Thursday, March 26

Why we’re lost without our taboos Social habits can protect us during crises

The German media’s liberal globalism is yesterday’s news As in the UK, Left-leaning outlets have blamed political leaders for 'corona chaos'

Exile in Babylon: nature needs a sabbath We must use this crisis to re-shape our economy into something greener

Elizabeth Oldfield

Wednesday, March 25

Half the country infected? I doubt it If a scientific finding is interesting, it's probably not true

Lockdown for lovers is a throwback to the 1970s Signing up or shipping out reverses decades of social and cultural change

David Cameron was right about one thing He warned about the threat to our food security over a decade ago

Tuesday, March 24

Remembering Albert Uderzo, illustrator of the Asterix books The books were a central part of my childhood and made me feel genuinely European

Mary Harrington

Listen: Ian Birrell on whether China is to blame Our contributor talks to Freddie Sayers about the country's shifting role in the Covid pandemic

Covid-19 will be a defining moment in our multicultural story This is the first real crisis that our nation has gone through together since the Second World War

Can someone please cancel Joe Wicks? All these celebrities are getting the lockdown vibe wrong

Polly Mackenzie

Monday, March 23

The fatal flaw in the Job Retention Scheme Paying workers not to work is a serious error

Zoom eucharist felt like an episode of Masterchef — and I loved it Online church services are starting to feel like food programmes

Don’t shut the parks, Boris — give us rules There are ways to keep vital public spaces open safely

Saturday, March 21

How do we face human extinction? A deadly pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

Friday, March 20

No, Matt Hancock, this is not a “once-in-a-century event” The remark implies that there's a ceiling on the risks we face from future pandemics

Christ the Redeemer is the perfect antidote to Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ The famous statue offers a touching expression of global solidarity

How does the UK compare to the rest of the world on handling Covid-19? In general, we have a tendency to look at the wrong things

Thursday, March 19

The Bank of England’s blood drive Will reducing the interest rate and another round of QE make any difference?

The appalling treatment of Suzanne Moore She is right to publish the names of the cowards who denounced her

Virtual wine tasting takes off in lockdown China New 'cloud' communities are emerging as the country remains in quarantine

Do we need a government of national unity? If holding things together means bringing in the other parties, then so be it

Wednesday, March 18

Cancelled by coronavirus Calling off my book launch was tough, but this crisis made me appreciate what’s truly important

Mental health ‘experts’ are shamelessly exploiting Covid-19 The industry is rife with practitioners opportunistically selling their services online

The no-deal nightmare scenario doesn’t seem so bad now Coronavirus has made all those Doomsday Brexit predictions look rather silly

Tuesday, March 17

The sunny Australian spirit goes walkabout Bush fires and the coronavirus have chipped away at the country's cheerful character

Jonathan Sacks: why does Richard Dawkins single out Jews? In my latest podcast, the former Chief Rabbi asks why atheists target the Old Testament God over the New

The strange experience of watching Schrödinger’s Half Marathon The contrast between my planned and actual weekends caught me in two worlds

Mary Harrington

Monday, March 16

Don’t nudge us, Prime Minister, tell us! It seems the Government is sacrificing clarity in an attempt to sound less authoritarian

A handy Encyclopedia of Social Justice A new site attempts to translate all those woke words you hear so often

We are heading towards a socialist future Until the coronavirus is defeated, the state will need to be much more active