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04/16/2021 - 8:00am

The uncomfortable truth about sex at university Wherever men and women live together, there will be instances of sexual assault

Thursday, April 15

Careful Andy Burnham, sniping at Westminster won’t work Scoring cheap political points will only undermine the devolution project

Why the media love Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal The President's policy is identical to Donald Trump's — but that's not how CNN sees it

Israel’s identity crisis A declining Jewish population poses new and difficult questions for the country

Delaying the ‘indy’ vote will leave Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable The SNP leader's concession will be music to Alex Salmond’s ears

Did Sweden get Covid wrong? Johan Giesecke, the outspoken epidemiologist, assesses a year of pandemic

Wednesday, April 14

Bridget Phetasy: will YouTube disappear me? The comedian is nervous about her future on the platform

‘Levelling up’ Hartlepool will be harder than Boris thinks Coronavirus has exposed huge health inequalities across the country

Aveek Bhattacharya

Superforecaster: Academic intolerance will be a ‘blip’ Philip Tetlock is sanguine about the future of higher education

Tuesday, April 13

Boris Johnson needs a lesson in communication Politicians should be candid about trade-offs and not speak in absolutes

The decline of Standard English is not progress Hull University betrays its students by not docking marks for spelling mistakes

Abolishing the police won’t help women A new wave of anti-law-enforcement feminism is detached from reality

Monday, April 12

Cancel culture is real — and it’s getting worse Both conservatives and liberals should oppose the new censoriousness

What’s really behind America’s BDSM craze? The forbidden yearning for hierarchy is coming out in the bedroom

Mary Harrington

Will a Bavarian joker be Germany’s next chancellor? Markus Söder is the outsider candidate to succeed Angela Merkel

Why we won’t cancel Yuri Gagarin His statue in London will be safe from the woke iconoclasts

Saturday, April 10

Prince Philip’s Socratic sense of duty His chivalric devotion to the Queen became his main task in life

Friday, April 9

Sir Nicholas Soames: Philip’s values now seem far away The retired MP shares reflections on 60 years of friendship

Prince Philip embodied the KBO spirit Representative of the wartime generation, the Duke kept buggering on

Russell Brand’s vaccine passport crusade The comedian is asking the right questions — but will anyone listen?

The key to anti-ageing? Why not try draining the young… again Silicon Valley is betting big on the transfusions of young people's blood

Thursday, April 8

The North likes Margaret Thatcher more than you might think The former PM polls well in the Red Wall and beyond

Can Jennifer Lopez tempt you back to work? Offices will need to do more to attract employees in a post-pandemic world

Will Bitcoin destroy the West — and then the world? Peter Thiel is warning that the cryptocurrency could disrupt the global order

On the AstraZeneca jab, I may have been wrong about Europe The risk is tiny, but there could be a link between the vaccine and blood clots

Wednesday, April 7

Selling liberalism to Afghanistan Washington wanted democracy, but got a bloated NGO sector instead

Westminster has a West Wing problem Politicians who are interested in winning shouldn't look to Aaron Sorkin for tips

Polly Mackenzie

America’s disturbing death statistics A new study shows that class, not race, is a bigger predictor of an early death

Sadiq Khan’s cannabis promise only helps the privileged The impact would be extremely regressive — and he can't even do it

Tuesday, April 6

Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up The IDW convenor explains how the group became ideologically divided

Labour’s new militant tendency is the LGBT+ lobby Keir Starmer should learn from the past and not let them take over the party

The Government’s paternalism is eroding public trust Making a habit of withholding information will have damaging consequences