18 Aug 2022 - 1:00am

The progressive puritans will fail Noah Rothman: ‘The Rise of the New Puritans’

Kat Rosenfield

08.04

How the Left gave up on freedom Today's progressives snigger at Britain's history of liberty

Giles Fraser

02.10

How hysterical leaders fail workers Health and safety regulations should be based on a sense of proportion — not the aim to eliminate all risk

Paul Embery

25.09

Why Covid can’t cancel Christmas There is much to be gained by knocking out of all the cheap commercial cheer

Giles Fraser

24.06

Was the two-metre rule one big lie? By covering up complexity with nice round numbers, public health officials treat us like children

Timandra Harkness

16.06

How Covid is domesticating millennials Everything they enjoy spending their money on has been curbed

Eliza Filby

20.05

Can university survive Covid-19? Academics have long argued that the computer can never replace the classroom

Gerard DeGroot

27.04

Don’t go looking for utopia in lockdown As the history of separatist movements in America suggests, communal self-isolating tends to end in tears

Daniel Kalder

24.04

Short stories for short attention spans John Gray, Polly Mackenzie, Tom Holland and other writers recommend succinct reading to suit our strange reality

Various Contributors

22.04

Lockdown is just a holiday from modernity This may look like the beginning of a seismic change in society — but don't be fooled

Niall Gooch

17.04

Will rural France recover from Covid? In the tiny village of La Roche, conversation was the first victim of Macron's lockdown

John Lewis-Stempel

15.04

I don’t want life to go back to ‘normal’ So much of the pre-Covid-19 world was geared up for the 'gregarious' and merely tolerated by many of us

Graeme Archer