Donald Trump make remarks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office that will punish Facebook, Google and Twitter for the way they police content online. Credit: Doug Mills

06/16/2020 - 8:00am

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

Monday, June 15

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, June 13

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

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 12

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, June 11

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, June 10

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, June 9

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, June 8

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, June 7

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, June 6

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

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 5

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, June 4

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

The British imitation of America goes well beyond race The trans movement is another notable US import

Wednesday, June 3

Did Dominic Cummings cause a lockdown breakdown? There are a couple of problems with this hypothesis

Karl Friston: up to 80% not even susceptible to Covid-19 The influential professor's statistical observations could radically change how we lift lockdown

After Trump, will a more dangerous demagogue arrive? It's worth contemplating what a more competent populist could achieve

Tuesday, June 2

Unfortunately, political sectarianism is only going to get worse We are seeing this on both sides of the Atlantic

Hyper-connectivity: Our fatal weakness The pandemic has exposed this fundamental flaw in the economic system

Monday, June 1

Is lockdown hurting Red Wall voters the most? New research shows they are badly hit by Covid job losses

Pandemics and climate change spelled the end for Rome The role of these factors has never looked more relevant