June 4, 2021

Britain needs a cigarette The English want to ban smoking — I'll take my chances

David Hockney

27.04

Books won’t save you You can't use literature as a shortcut to self-improvement

Sarah Ditum

23.03

Will I ever escape lockdown? The Covid jab is effectively useless for people with cancer like mine

Stephen Pollard

19.03

Melancholy saved my life Profound sadness can be more of a breakthrough than a breakdown

Horatio Clare

23.02

Should we vaccinate children? Boris's 'roadmap' out of lockdown seems sensible — but he's forgetting something

Tom Chivers

22.02

How Israel won the vaccine wars The country was predisposed to succeed — but took a huge gamble

Shany Mor

01.02

What if we were always a little bit drunk? Glasses at the ready — a new film suggests we need alcohol more than we might think

25.01

The uncomfortable truth about death The pandemic has forced us to confront our mortality - and that is no bad thing

John Lee

11.11

Why the poor eat poorly The Government has U-turned on free school meals. But moralising about people's diets won't help

James Bloodworth

07.05

It’s worth taking a risk over Covid-19 The language of fear is counterproductive: let's have a grown-up debate about safety

Timandra Harkness

08.04

How Boris became the body politic The PM's personal health now seems bound up with the health of the nation

Matthew Sweet

11.02

Why we should be worried about coronavirus This crisis probably won't kill us all; but sooner or later a pandemic is bound to wipe out the human race

Peter Franklin