March 5, 2021

Our narcissistic view of death Memorialisation has become more about the living than the dead

Giles Fraser

23.12

Why the Irish border still troubles Britain A century ago Ireland was partitioned between South and North. The legacy still haunts both islands

Charles Townshend

28.05

Why we remember wars but forget plagues Art ignores pandemics because they're too boring, too horrific and too depressing

Sean Thomas

20.05

Our National Security Council is a joke It identified a pandemic as a serious risk to the country — and then didn't act on it

Tom Swarbrick

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

20.03

Covid-19 has exposed our financial fragility An orgy of borrowing, speculation and euphoria has left the markets on the verge of catastrophe

Jonathan Tepper

01.03

The dangerous power of the anti-vaxxer brigade How does it feel to live through a vaccine horror story?

Imogen Shaw

06.11

Why don’t we remember these 100 million dead? If we forget the scale of the Spanish Flu horror, we'll be doomed to repeat it

Laura Spinney