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5 Jan 2021 - 12:12pm

The Merchant of Venice deserves to be cancelled


Monday, 4 January

04.01

Boris Johnson fails the marshmallow test

Tom Chivers

04.01

Why did the Chinese Communist Party turn on Jack Ma?

Mary Harrington

04.01

Bring back Tony Blair!

Ed West

Friday, 1 January

01.01

Careful, Michael Sheen — Wales likes its Prince

Theo Davies-Lewis

01.01

Don’t pity the pornographers

Mary Harrington

Thursday, 31 December

31.12

With the China deal, the EU falls back to hard realpolitik

Aris Roussinos

Wednesday, 30 December

30.12

Ian Blackford’s shoddy history and clumsy myth-making

Henry Hill

30.12

What’s the real cost of sending kids back to school?

Tom Chivers

30.12

How the UK can speed up the vaccine rollout

Jonathon Kitson

Tuesday, 29 December

29.12

Why the Twitter pitchforks came for me over an NHS statistic

Paul Embery

29.12

Call the Midwife deals with diversity in the right way

Louise Perry

Monday, 28 December

28.12

Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be?

Freddie Sayers

28.12

Ten ways this year could have been worse

Peter Franklin

Saturday, 26 December

26.12

Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible

Freddie Sayers

Friday, 25 December

25.12

Tom Holland: the real reason why Christmas is today

UnHerd

25.12

Christmas cancelled? Here’s why you should party like It’s 1656

Timandra Harkness

Thursday, 24 December

24.12

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, 23 December

23.12

Tom Holland: Is it Christian to cancel Christmas?

Freddie Sayers

23.12

This Christmas, bittersweet ‘hiraeth’ spreads far beyond Wales

Theo Davies-Lewis

Tuesday, 22 December

22.12

Critical race theory must be resisted in our universities

Philip Hammond

22.12

Trump’s architectural decree is half right

Nicholas Boys Smith

22.12

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation

Peter Franklin

Monday, 21 December

21.12

I was 50 minutes from take-off when travel was banned

Beatrice Guzzardi

21.12

Even John Redwood now thinks our food system is broken

Aris Roussinos

21.12

Travel bans won’t stop the new Covid strain

David Engelthaler

Friday, 18 December

18.12

Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster

Freddie Sayers

18.12

Two cheers for Liz Truss

Paul Embery

18.12

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first

Peter Franklin

Thursday, 17 December

17.12

Beware the Robespierres of Twitter

Gavin Haynes

17.12

Will devoscepticism derail the Scottish Tories?

Henry Hill

17.12

Has California’s day in the sun finished?

Peter Franklin