March 26, 2020

Can our mental health cope? Don't catastrophise: conquering things is what we humans do

Polly Mackenzie

25.03

Will the pandemic kill off libertarianism? Coronavirus is forcing us to reckon with some basic assumptions about freedom

James Kirkup

25.03

Coronavirus has given Orban his excuse The Hungarian leader has used the crisis to erode political freedom

Alexander Faludy

25.03

Covid-19 is the nail in the coffin for traditional funerals Its legacy will be that we separate the disposal of the body from the commemoration of the life

Andrew Watts

25.03

Why this could be worse than the Spanish flu We may have far better medicine than 100 years ago, but we're not as well prepared for the aftershocks of an epidemic

Gerard DeGroot

24.03

Would you take a coronavirus risk? We are stuck in the middle of a massive multiplayer coordination problem

Tom Chivers

24.03

Plague and the comforts of history From Bede to T.S. Elliot, suffering in the face of overwhelming terror is what links us

Tom Holland

24.03

Who are you calling gullible? Contrary to received wisdom, the general public isn't that easily duped

Timandra Harkness

24.03

Can your ideology cope with coronavirus? How today's prevailing political positions measure up against a pandemic

Peter Franklin

23.03

China is not the hero in this darkest hour Beijing wants to restore national pride by shifting the narrative from coronavirus ground zero to global rescuer

Ian Birrell

23.03

Covid-19 won’t change this narcissistic generation The panic from millennials in the face of a little adversity troubles me

Meghan Murphy

23.03

The BBC is having a good coronavirus war The broadcaster has rediscovered its original purpose: uniting a divided nation

Robin Aitken