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

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday

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

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

Monday

28.12

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

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

Saturday

26.12

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

Friday

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

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

Timandra Harkness

Thursday

24.12

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

Wednesday

23.12

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

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

Theo Davies-Lewis

Tuesday

22.12

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

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

Nicholas Boys Smith

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

Monday

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

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

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

David Engelthaler

Friday

18.12

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

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

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

Thursday

17.12

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

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

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

Wednesday

16.12

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

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

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

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

15.12

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

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

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

Jonathan Glancey

Monday

14.12

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

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

Sunday

13.12

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

Friday

11.12

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

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

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

Thursday

10.12

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

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

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

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

Wednesday

09.12

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

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

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

Tuesday

08.12

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

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

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

Monday

07.12

Deck the halls! Ironic hipster Christianity may save us all Perhaps the new 'Minimalist Nativity' sets represent a staging post back to faith

Mary Harrington

Tutor speaks out on Cambridge free speech battle Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr Arif Ahmed about the university's free speech vote

Nottingham and the fall of civilisation When a city is crushed by concrete, there’s nowhere left to go when it crumbles

Friday

04.12

Mosul, unexpectedly, is a classic war film Netflix has created a created a masterpiece that honours the people of Iraq

In praise of the Covid superforecasters Unlike vague statements made by commentators, we made testable predictions

Vapid politicians will never unite our country A new report on Britain's 'tribes' offers no solutions to a dysfunctional nation

Thursday

03.12

Hong Kong dissident: 100,000 could move to Britain next year Freddie Sayers spoke to activist Nathan Law about his exile in London

Healthcare workers will be the first piece of the vaccine jigsaw Doctors and nurses will get priority, but everyone will feel the benefits

Give Harry a break, he’s right about Covid The Prince's public statements can be tiresome, but this one happens to be true

Wednesday

02.12

In the Keira Bell case, the NHS trust had no answers Many open questions remain about puberty-blockers

It’s official: I’m a menace to society A member of the EHRC liking my tweets has become a news story

How a Hungarian MEP exposed Fidesz’s failings The Szájer scandal is about more than individual hypocrisy

Alexander Faludy

Don’t let an accident create another pandemic We need to think hard before using our ever-expanding bio-engineering toolkit

Tuesday

01.12

The ‘Stolen Election’ narrative is nothing new The tendency to cast doubt on the opposing party’s victories goes way back

Geoff Shullenberger

The Welsh have always wanted to drink on their own terms Mark Drakeford's 'booze ban' is not the first time Wales has endured prohibition

Theo Davies-Lewis

Where next for the Bernie Sanders Left? Freddie Sayers spoke to American historian Harvey Kaye to find out

Monday

30.11

Academics face a moral dilemma Is the highest purpose to promote social justice or academic freedom?

Mary Harrington

Love, not money, will save the Union An emotional case for Britain needs to be made

Layla Saad: a curious case of false identification with black America The Qatari author should be more vocal about the racism in her own country

Friday

27.11

The MoD can learn a thing or two from Italy The country has engaged in a dramatic programme of naval modernisation

The case for aid should have been patriotic, not preachy Everybody loved the foreign aid budget — apart from the public

“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end Humans love status signals, and they can't be legislated away

Thursday

26.11

I am utterly confused about the Oxford vaccine There are many questions about the trial left unanswered

Will Covid kill Silicon Valley? A worker exodus from California marks a permanent change for Big Tech

Thanksgiving Wars are more performance than reality Today's holiday is the latest flashpoint in pandemic politics

Wednesday

25.11

No, urban graduates are not the new working class The Left is engaged in a futile attempt to redefine the term

Today’s alt-Right are the ideological children of Yukio Mishima Both share an obsession with traditionalism and hatred of modernity

James Bloodworth

Can we count on low interest rates? Rishi Sunak may wish to take the long view on this question

Suzanne Moore: ‘I felt absolutely betrayed’ The former Guardian columnist tells her story to Freddie Sayers

Tuesday

24.11

Climate doomsters are giving children ‘eco-anxiety’ Scaring youngsters about the future will do them no good

Andrew Cuomo is not a hero of this pandemic The governor has successfully whitewashed his Covid performance

Why 2021 is going to be a fantastic year for Britain There will be months of indulgence and excess when Covid recedes

Monday

23.11

Viktor Orbán’s Russian vaccine gamble Importing 'Sputnik' is a desperate move to calm the Hungarian public

Alexander Faludy

Memo to Justin Welby: Charity is for the Church, not government Does the Archbishop of Canterbury see no role for a modern CofE?

Mary Harrington

Should we ‘call in’ people instead of calling them out? There's a humane alternative to cancel culture

Friday

20.11

Britain’s leadership is finally taking the Royal Navy seriously again The decision is welcome, but the UK needs a plan for its use

Danish mask study author: effect may be small, but worthwhile The author of a controversial new study into masks defends their use