Was lockdown 'one of the greatest peacetime failures in modern history'? Credit: Getty

Dec 12 2023 - 5:45pm

What QALYs reveal about lockdowns Rishi Sunak has brought attention to a key measure of pandemic management

Andy Cook: how lockdowns broke Britain The Covid Inquiry is missing key facts

PEN America’s new president is no free speech champion Jennifer Finney Boylan disowned a letter signed by J.K. Rowling

Eliza Mondegreen

Rishi Sunak: lockdown costs outweighed benefits The PM quoted a significant QALY finding in yesterday's inquiry hearing

The Tory landslide was a lifetime ago Four years on, the party has forgotten what it was elected to do

Monday, December 11

Even Democrats are waking up to America’s campus crisis Concerns about the state of higher education have reached the White House

City Supervisor: San Francisco is not progressive enough Dean Preston defended his approach to tackling crime and homelessness in the city

The hidden meaning behind Alex Jones’s return to X Elon Musk has reinstated the InfoWars host on the platform

Mary Harrington

It’s too soon to topple Rishi Sunak Budding assassins on the Tory Right should hold fire if they want to reach power

The West is wrong about China’s economy Rumours of an impending collapse are greatly exaggerated

Philip Pilkington

Sunday, December 10

More than one in eight African Americans deny the Holocaust A new poll finds that anti-Israel feeling has developed into more extreme forms

The Battle for San Francisco Watch our documentary investigation into a city on the edge

UPenn president’s resignation could be a turning point Liz Magill stepped down following a Congressional hearing on antisemitism

Saturday, December 9

Conservatives are too obsessed with TikTok The platform is dangerous — but not for the reasons the Right thinks

Friday, December 8

Is TikTok really making young Americans antisemitic? Republican Nikki Haley made a questionable claim this week

Scotland’s gender ruling is a victory for feminists The UK Government's veto of Holyrood's self-ID bill has been ruled lawful

Has Japan’s MeToo moment finally arrived? A series of sex scandals has rocked the country

Boris Johnson is still in denial about lockdowns The UK Covid inquiry is shamefully avoiding the biggest lesson of 2020

Jay Bhattacharya

Does Germany have a special responsibility towards Israel? Saxony-Anhalt wants new citizens to recognise the Jewish state's right to exist

Thursday, December 7

Jenrick’s departure is more serious than Braverman’s The former minister was seen as a loyalist to the PM

The EU is falling behind China Ursula von der Leyen's summit with Xi Jinping will yield few results

A small boats election is Rishi Sunak’s best chance Immigration is the only issue where the Tories and Labour truly differ

Why are people still denying Hamas’s rapes? Graphic reports this week continue to be ignored

If anyone can save the BBC, it’s Samir Shah The new chair understands the difference between reporting and campaigning

Wednesday, December 6

The rise of campus antisemitism should come as no surprise The loss of viewpoint diversity in higher education has played a major role

Saudi Arabia is turning away from the West Vladimir Putin's visit shows that the world order might be changing

Louis-Vincent Gave

Should we welcome a ‘cure’ for autism? Breakthrough research has led to a divide in the medical community

Joe Biden should listen to Republicans on the border crisis The President is passing up a political victory

James Cleverly’s migrant proposal is not conservative The scheme is cruel and wholly ineffective

A vote for Labour is a vote for Stonewall The organisation's influence still pervades the party

Tuesday, December 5

America is trapped in the Middle East As the Gaza conflict intensifies, Joe Biden has no good options left

Is Ukraine turning on Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Recent comments from Vitali Klitschko reveal a wider dissatisfaction

Bethany Elliott