Recreational drug use in western countries has steadily been rising since the 1960s

04/02/2020 - 12:38pm

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, April 1

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, March 31

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, March 30

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, March 28

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

Mary Harrington

Friday, March 27

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, March 26

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, March 25

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, March 24

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, March 23

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

Saturday, March 21

How do we face human extinction? A deadly pandemic has thrown this question into sharp focus

Mary Harrington

Friday, March 20

No, Matt Hancock, this is not a “once-in-a-century event” The remark implies that there's a ceiling on the risks we face from future pandemics

Christ the Redeemer is the perfect antidote to Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ The famous statue offers a touching expression of global solidarity

How does the UK compare to the rest of the world on handling Covid-19? In general, we have a tendency to look at the wrong things