Happy Bastille Day! Cancelling people since 1789… The French Revolution gave birth to the extremism we see today

How we make life easy for the modern slavers Our addiction to cheap, but legal, labour lets slavery hide in plain sight

Monday

13.07

A final victory for conservative Poland? Age break-down of the vote suggests that a liberal majority is on its way

The almost-comical tale of Lady A It's hard to think of a more evocative example of woke capital at work...

Mary Harrington

Friday

10.07

T-cell immunity and the truth about Covid-19 in Sweden We hear a lot about coronavirus in Sweden... but what's life like on the ground?

The Hagia Sophia is for prayer, not pictures Recep Erdogan is right: the faithful must return to this holy space

Thursday

09.07

Finally! A way to analyse NHS data from 17 million people A new paper from Ben Goldacre takes advantage of our centralised health system

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative? Social liberals are not the luminaries they think they are...

Wednesday

08.07

Steven Pinker: They’re trying to cancel me Freddie Sayers chats to the Harvard Professor about his denunciation by the illiberal Left

Rishi Sunak sparks the economy into life An emergency stimulus is the electrical shock the UK needs

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has to do three big things in his summer statement today

Tuesday

07.07

English nationalism: the dog that is starting to bark Polling shows growing popular support for independence from the UK

In the Karen Wars, no woman is safe Never forget: veiled misogyny comes in many forms

Monday

06.07

Would you have sex with an alien? A clever quiz question exposes an important ideological divide

Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation My only child misses her friends — robots like Moxie are not the answer

Mary Harrington

Briefing: what are Kanye West’s politics? The rapper has tweeted that he is running for president

Friday

03.07

Younger people are getting Covid — why is that bad news? The Leicester spike offers the chance to see what the real effects are

Let’s put an end to macho cultural pessimism It has been a common feature of elite outlets for decades

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

02.07

Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter Freddie Sayers chats to the Contributing Editor of City Journal about race relations in the US

I’m on the Oxford vaccine trial — here’s what it’s like For the next year, I'll be sticking a swab up my nose every week...

Dear Harry, maybe go back to ribbon-cutting? The prince’s conversion from a royal to the high priest of wokeness is nauseating

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks! Sizewell C is another white elephant from a dangerous foe

Wednesday

01.07

The BLM protests are the perfect Dionysiac moment The Greek god revelled in the primal wildness of the mob

Mary Harrington

It’s Germany’s EU now The new President of the EU Council has been in charge all along

How Keir Starmer can beat Boris His pro-flag, law and order approach is proving popular with the public

Tuesday

30.06

Interview: is Saudi Arabia making progress? Freddie Sayers speaks to Prince Khalid Bandar, Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to the UK

Should we decolonise Constantinople? The Hagia Sofia is now the 'Ayosofa' — a term used by the Ottoman Empire

Shouldn’t artists be worrying about Beauty instead of Politics? Today’s pop culture is reaching Victorian levels of moral righteousness

Joanna Rossiter

Digging up King David in the Israeli mountains Archaeologists are unearthing a very different account of Jewish history

Monday

29.06

France’s Green revolution Rising support for the environmentalists could hamper Macron's hopes for 2022

Liked tweets nearly cost me my university job The complaint was dropped, but others may not be so fortunate

Gove signals the end of the Left-Right divide The minister's latest speech was radical — but can he deliver it?

Friday

26.06

Stranded seafarers could trigger a national food crisis An under-reported Covid effect is threatening global supply chains

Mary Harrington

Welcome to the Age of Unreality June 2020 marks the end of a shared idea of truth

Thursday

25.06

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules Freddie Sayers speaks to Peter Borg-Neal, CEO of a 28-strong pub group

It’s official: Labour is no longer the party of the poor British politics really has turned upside down...

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea The author's flawed concept of psychohistory has real world examples

Wednesday

24.06

US journalists are fanning racial tensions In trying to solve one social evil, something more dangerous could emerge

The Age of Excuses is over Covid has shown how quickly an economy can transform — let's re-structure it

Tuesday

23.06

As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism The Successor Ideology is far, far worse...

A city should be a home, not a playground People are no longer tolerating deteriorating urban conditions

Monday

22.06

Junipero Serra, the latest target for progressives The Catholic saint represented an older world hated by today's Left

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism Freddie Sayers meets philosopher-mechanic Matthew Crawford

10 years on, will history repeat itself? The Osborne Budget of June 2010 was not driven by ideology alone

Saturday

20.06

Watermelons won’t save the planet Socialism cloaked in environmentalism will not deliver a sustainable future

Mary Harrington

Friday

19.06

A hate crime… without the hate A troubling development in the City of Oakland

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

For the international class, Brexit is a parochial concern This culture war is mostly irrelevant to their lives

Inequality is not a ‘Left-wing’ issue More and more voices on the Right are expressing concern

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

18.06

Doctors’ orders: Re-open the schools! The societal costs are mounting and the risks are low

Putin’s cathedral of war embodies his civilisation state The mesmerising building is a glimpse into the country's neo-traditionalist turn

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’? One American newspaper has made a strange change to their style guide

Wednesday

17.06

Gad Saad: cancel culture is dangerous and anti-liberal Freddie Sayers chats to the evolutionary psychologist about identity politics

2020 and the coming of neo-feudalism We are slowly returning to a pre-modern caste system

The C of E has forgotten the power of the parish The Church is the last to appreciate this treasure

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle! The No10 advisor will form a critical part of the new-look Government

Tuesday

16.06

Rutger Bregman: Why civilisation is a curse Freddie Sayers hears from the Dutch historian why Hobbes was wrong

Irish schadenfreude about Britain has come full circle The turbulence of UK politics has spread to Ireland

Let’s hire unemployed youngsters to clean graffiti Now is the time to clean up the country and insulate houses

By the numbers: how Twitter distorts the news The platform's relationship with the fourth estate is far from benign

Monday

15.06

What Boris actually said about purging the past Some of our leading academics didn't like it very much

Safetyism: The new university doctrine The irrational aversion to risk is rooted in the place it ought to be challenged

When will the trade unions speak up? They sit idly by while workers face ever tightening constraints on their freedoms

Saturday

13.06

After Covid, a demographic crisis awaits The virus has revealed the acute vulnerability of ageing populations

Mary Harrington

Friday

12.06

Malcolm Turnbull: Trump is not a conservative Freddie Sayers speaks to the former Australian Prime Minister

The Wire could never be made today The show's moral complexity belongs to a bygone era

Why is the Government U-turning on masks? It comes down to a question of evidence

Thursday

11.06

How did Covid come to Britain? A new study provides some important clues

When it comes to statues in Hungary, kitsch is king My country has a unique way of remembering its historical figures...

Alexander Faludy

Wednesday

10.06

Norwegian health chief: we advised against closing schools Freddie Sayers speaks to Camilla Stoltenberg, head of the Norwegian Institute for Public Health

Why the Conservatives are right to ban evictions Covid is not the landlords' fault, but it's not their tenants' fault either

Statue-toppling shakes the foundations of ‘Britishness’ Removing imperial monuments could have a surprising effect on UK identity

Tuesday

09.06

Watch: Was Dickens a Remainer or Leaver? Helen Thompson gives her take...

No wonder the Church of England rejected my library design The institution is trying too hard to be trendy

A V-shaped recovery? U have got to be joking The crisis has bruised some parts of the economy — others have been broken

Monday

08.06

Chicago Pastor: Police should not allow looting Freddie Sayers speaks to Chicago pastor Corey Brooks about rioting in his community

Don’t kid yourselves, this isn’t 1968 Unlike the soixante-huitards, BLM protesters have establishment support

Sunday

07.06

Ross Douthat: BLM protests and the Decadent Society The New York Times columnist talks to Freddie Sayers about the protests, Trump and the politics of Covid-19

Saturday

06.06

Descending into the underworld This week's long read pick is a classic essay from writer Annie Dillard

Mary Harrington

Friday

05.06

Tim Davie faces a perfect storm at the Beeb Falling revenues, a hostile government and growing competition signal tough times ahead

Some Brexit voters aren’t going to like Whiggish Global Britain The Hong Kong question exposes a big division in the Leave camp

Thursday

04.06

Ben and Jerry’s: your moral saviour Is there any creed more unedifying than woke capitalism?

Is the world facing a hysteretic shock? The lockdown recession threatens to scar the economy for generations