Don’t let the bean-counters abolish our army regiments Military subdivision describes the basis of our wider moral solidarity

Bim Afolami: the sacred has found its way into politics Like it or not, the Left and Right are acquiring a religious fervour

Elizabeth Oldfield

Should we all go Amish for the NHS? There's a lot we can learn from this religious minority

Thursday

23.04

US Entrepreneurs call for easing of lockdown Freddie Sayers chats to JetBlue founder David Neeleman and Second Home co-founder Rohan Silva

Beware of Covid confimation bias The pandemic has unleashed a torrent of conflicting evidence

Meet Claire Ainsley, Keir Starmer’s intriguing new Head of Policy The appointment hints at a more radical break from Corbynism

Far-Right Catholics blame the Pope for Covid A new Italian documentary lays bare the hatred felt towards Francis

Wednesday

22.04

Will a desperate EU resort to ‘perpetual bonds’? Financier George Soros makes a far-fetched proposal...

The Groypers’ new battleground: TikTok The American far-Right youth movement is targeting Zoomers

Tuesday

21.04

Don’t let the word ‘lesbian’ go out of fashion We fought for years to make it a word we could wear with pride

The poison in the veins of the global economy We should see crude oil for what it truly is

Should home schooling be banned? A law professor argues that it abandons children ideologically

Mary Harrington

Monday

20.04

If Britain is becoming a ‘one-party state’, blame Labour At some point the Left will have to stop blaming the winners

Do I have a moral duty to lose weight? To protect the NHS, I'm on a lockdown diet

Swedish epidemiologist interview goes global Our interview with Prof Johan Giesecke has been viewed over 500,000 times

Saturday

18.04

How royal mistresses beefed in the 17th century Without Twitter, Charles II's lovers had to get creative

Mary Harrington

Friday

17.04

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy Freddie Sayers speaks to Professor Johan Giesecke, who says that our policy is not driven by evidence

What does it mean to be a liberal? When it became an adjective as well as a noun, the word's definition got out of hand

Covid-19 is giving me weird dreams What's more, it seems to be a worldwide phenomenon

Thursday

16.04

Catch-up: Alastair Campbell and Maajid Nawaz on the media The pair discuss how the English press has performed during the pandemic

Why did the New York Times bury its own Covid story? A leaked PowerPoint slide indicates that corona infection fatality rate is lower than estimated

Stopping fertility treatment will also cost lives As procedures are abruptly halted, thousands of babies will not now be born

Wednesday

15.04

Covid is the common enemy we’ve been searching for The virus has united the country and in doing so, made us all a little emotional

The Brits’ love-hate relationship with lockdown This country has a complicated attitude to authority

The West is becoming like China, not the other way round Formerly free-market nations are turning to state capitalism in reponse to the crisis

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

14.04

Who says a Covid recession would mean more people dead? Historically, economic downturns have led to a fall in deaths, not a rise

The week that coronavirus became visible New data out this morning shows that total deaths in the week ending 3 April were dramatically higher than normal

Saturday

11.04

Teach children knowledge — not critical thinking Without background information of a topic, comprehension will be limited even for the most able reader

Mary Harrington

Friday

10.04

WATCH: Andrew Adonis on the costs of the lockdown The Labour peer tells Freddie Sayers that we need a more rational debate

Nicky Gumbel’s Confessions Giles sits down with the Anglican priest and pioneer of the Alpha course to talk family, faith and doubt

Is air pollution making the pandemic worse? There's mounting evidence that it leaves us more vulnerable to the virus

Thursday

09.04

Beware unchecked scientific theories about Covid Due to these strange times, the scientific community is putting out unverified hypotheses at double rate

Joe Biden didn’t win, Bernie lost The Vermont Senator didn't even win the battle of ideas among the Democratic base

Virtual Seder was almost as good as the real thing But nothing will replace the physical togetherness of Judaism and Christianity

Wednesday

08.04

The strange symbolism of the Queen and Boris Helen Thompson and Matthew Sweet reflect on a revealing week for our country

Give NHS workers hazard pay Nurses and doctors should be compensated for risking their lives on the frontline

Why certain Right-wingers thirst for secret knowledge Esoteric belief systems can offer the ideologues a degree of exclusivity

Finally! The government recognises childcare as work New rules say that people can be furloughed if they can't work due to caring responsibilities

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

07.04

Catch-up: Lockdown TV, Day 15 Featuring Dominic Frisby on home schooling and Gavin Haynes on Traditionalism

Boris in the ICU makes this crisis too much to bear If the PM can be reduced to this, it emphasises how fragile our country is

False cures for Covid-19 are endangering my health My access to hydroxychloroquine has been jeopardised since its rise to fame

Do conservative Catholics get fair trials? Cardinal Pell had many enemies in Australia

Has the FT really changed its mind on capitalism? An editorial called time on four decades of neoliberal policy

Monday

06.04

Weirdo conservatives were the first to spot the Covid threat The Right is a particular combination of highly intelligent and quite stupid

To relieve our parks, open the golf courses We need more public space to get through this, not less

The Queen calls time on the snowflake generation She is right that this crisis is re-kindling fellow feeling

Saturday

04.04

What is the future for America Inc.? The Covid pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

Friday

03.04

Lockdown TV, Day 11 Featuring Paul Embery on Labour and corona-tyrants, and Giles Fraser and Mary Harrington post-liberal instincts

GPs should not play God during Covid If there are no medical issues at stake, doctors have no right to decide what lives are worth saving

The Orban decree is scary — but it’s about more than trans rights Progressives need to unite against the Orban threat, not point the finger at feminists

As a Tottenham Hotspur fan, I’m ashamed We should emulate other European teams' response to the crisis

Why are so many Italian doctors dying? Thus far, 77 have died

Thursday

02.04

Peter Hitchens on Coronavirus The columnist discusses his Covid scepticism with Freddie Sayers

A glimpse inside a virus-testing laboratory My correspondent reveals some surprisingly mundane sources of delay

Covid is killing the black market — maybe that’s a bad thing There could be violent consequences

CATCH UP: Lockdown TV, day 9 Featuring Tom Chivers on Corona, and Rowan Pelling and Louise Perry on the problem of porn

Wednesday

01.04

We’re going to need a new name for the Great Recession What we face now is so much worse than 2008

Is there a racism epidemic in America? Based on how much people have spoken about it in recent years, you'd think so

The culture wars are far from over Covid-19 marks a ceasefire, not anything like an end

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

31.03

WATCH: the view from Sweden on their coronavirus response Analysts Johan Anderberg and Paulina Neuding discuss Sweden's laissez-faire approach

A grim milestone for the UK epidemic New data from the ONS shows that deaths per week just moved above average

Will coronavirus kill the shale revolution? With oil at $20 a barrel, the industry is struggling to survive

Monday

30.03

LISTEN: Lord Sumption on the national ‘hysteria’ over coronavirus The former Supreme Court judge warned that Britain was turning into a police state

What Emmanuel Levinas would have to say about Zoom The French philosopher argued that ethics is rooted in the face-to-face encounter

Let Brits pick their own fruit! Flying 90,000 migrants to the UK in the middle of a pandemic would be utterly mad

Saturday

28.03

What the West can learn from China East Asian systems of hierarchy have wisdom in them

Mary Harrington

Friday

27.03

Why do these epidemics always start in China? Many pandemics start in Asia because that is where most humans live

Secularists have reached a new low They are trying to poison inter-faith relations

I miss the culture warriors I want to go back to a society where problems are invented

Thursday

26.03

Why we’re lost without our taboos Social habits can protect us during crises

The German media’s liberal globalism is yesterday’s news As in the UK, Left-leaning outlets have blamed political leaders for 'corona chaos'

Exile in Babylon: nature needs a sabbath We must use this crisis to re-shape our economy into something greener

Elizabeth Oldfield

Wednesday

25.03

Half the country infected? I doubt it If a scientific finding is interesting, it's probably not true

Lockdown for lovers is a throwback to the 1970s Signing up or shipping out reverses decades of social and cultural change

David Cameron was right about one thing He warned about the threat to our food security over a decade ago

Tuesday

24.03

Remembering Albert Uderzo, illustrator of the Asterix books The books were a central part of my childhood and made me feel genuinely European

Mary Harrington

Listen: Ian Birrell on whether China is to blame Our contributor talks to Freddie Sayers about the country's shifting role in the Covid pandemic

Covid-19 will be a defining moment in our multicultural story This is the first real crisis that our nation has gone through together since the Second World War

Can someone please cancel Joe Wicks? All these celebrities are getting the lockdown vibe wrong

Polly Mackenzie

Monday

23.03

The fatal flaw in the Job Retention Scheme Paying workers not to work is a serious error

Zoom eucharist felt like an episode of Masterchef — and I loved it Online church services are starting to feel like food programmes

Don’t shut the parks, Boris — give us rules There are ways to keep vital public spaces open safely