04/29/2020 - 4:25pm

Yanis Varoufakis on Covid-19, Brexit and the trouble with Keir Starmer Freddie Sayers speaks to the former Greek finance minister

Why no mention of marriage in the domestic violence debate? Lockdown has put the politics of home in the spotlight

Johan Giesecke stands firm: death rates in Sweden will go down The Swedish professor responds to our Neil Ferguson interview

Michael Moore turns on the Green Movement The Left-wing filmmaker has caused a stir in liberal circles

Tuesday, April 28

The Guardian’s paranoid anti-nationalism The paper makes a less-than-convincing case about who — or what — is to blame for the crisis

The tragic hubris of modern city planning A new book shows how post-war cities are turning into ghost towns

Monday, April 27

Will Covid kill neoliberalism? Freddie Sayers speaks to Thomas Fazi and Julian Jessop

Is anorexia wired into our moral foundations? Modern day eating disorders might share the same roots as medieval asceticism

Mary Harrington

A post-Kim Korea is a dangerous proposition The demise of a dictator rarely turns a country into a flowering democracy

Saturday, April 25

Imperial’s Neil Ferguson defends lockdown strategy Freddie Sayers speaks to the British epidemiologist on today's episode of Lockdown TV

Friday, April 24

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, April 23

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, April 22

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, April 21

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, April 20

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, April 18

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

Mary Harrington

Friday, April 17

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, April 16

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