Section: Essay

Total Results: 1016


The 2018 Rose Monday Parade in Dusseldorf mocking liberal Europe's new bêtes noires. Photo by Lukas Schulze/Getty Images
10 Nov 2020 - 12:01am

Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels Hungary and Poland have forced the EU to make a Faustian pact to ensure its future

Wessie du Toit

Monday, 9 November

09.11

Why the polling miss matters Biden's win isn't a vindication for the pollsters — it's a wake-up call

Freddie Sayers

Thursday, 5 November

05.11

Do orgasms make us weak? The 'no masturbation month' movement points to a philosophy that dates back nearly two millennia

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, 3 November

03.11

What’s your vote really worth? Your ballot paper probably won't be the one that changes the course of an election

Tom Chivers

Monday, 2 November

02.11

The age-old tension between Islam and France A profound antipathy reaches back beyond the Enlightenment

Tom Holland

Friday, 30 October

30.10

Why the British love ghost stories As a nation, we are trapped between past and present, tradition and modernity

Aris Roussinos

Thursday, 29 October

29.10

How corporations can delete your existence Losing a Twitter account for controversial statements is one thing; losing a bank account is quite another

Gavin Haynes

Wednesday, 28 October

28.10

The horror of deepfake nudes Non-consensual porn isn't a 'woman's issue' — it shows that anyone's identity can be hijacked

Nina Schick

28.10

Will the Moon become the next Iraq? As Earth's great powers compete for lunar supremacy, astropolitics is about to get ugly

Tim Marshall

Tuesday, 27 October

27.10

How Big Tech seduced the Left In the 1960s, liberals stood up to IBM to defend free speech. Now they cosy up to Silicon Valley

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday, 26 October

26.10

Public trust? There’s no app for that Covid is helping to drive life-saving technology that many are too suspicious to use

Timandra Harkness

Friday, 23 October

23.10

Would Jeremy Hunt have done better? Britain would have had a very different pandemic under the leadership of the former Health Secretary

James Kirkup