January 7, 2021

How my drinking lost its virtue Dry January means I can't use booze to escape myself

Giles Fraser

05.01

Who are Covid’s guilty men? The British state and its parasitic para-state are unfit for purpose

Aris Roussinos

04.01

The pandemic didn’t shatter society, Zoom did During lockdown technology has exacerbated difference and atomised lives

Timandra Harkness

01.01

How will Covid shape 2021? With the pandemic routed, old political problems will resurface

Matthew Goodwin

21.12

Boris can survive a cancelled Christmas Many voters are still giving their shambolic PM the benefit of the doubt

James Kirkup

17.12

Hope rises from the rubble of my church This ancient parish stands firm as the demolition diggers move in

Giles Fraser

30.11

The Covid tiers can’t go soon enough When lockdown ends, the Government should look to traffic lanes, not traffic lights

Freddie Sayers

16.11

Why we need populism It kicks in when our democracies become too remote and detached from the people

Matthew Goodwin

13.11

Who’d work in Downing Street? Mediocre pay, terrible conditions, constant backstabbing — no wonder No10 can't get the staff

Polly Mackenzie

02.11

Centrists are the biggest threat to democracy The anti-democratic spirit of the age is an expression of colossal self-regard

Peter Franklin

14.10

Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity Confusion about the Covid-19 science is hampering debate — and costing lives

Sunetra Gupta

14.10

The German coronavirus mystery Why have British people been dying at six times the rate of those in Germany?

Tom Chivers