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Be less kind

‘Common-sense kindness works through the golden rule—do as you would be done by. Wokeness replaces this delicate reciprocal balance with a sort of moral socialism—a blank cheque for whoever shouts loudest’

August 28, 2020

Guest Speaker

The importance of talking about nothing

Covid-19 is forcing abrupt change on Japanese office life and traditions

August 28, 2020

Features

Can a white conservative be trusted?

There is particularly fertile ground for mistrust in an era in which fear has become a dominant public perspective

August 28, 2020

Open Season

Tristram Shandy and the consolations of comedy

The story of “A COCK and a BULL . . . And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard”:

August 28, 2020

Counterpoints

How to prevent the next pandemic

‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to

August 28, 2020

Immune response

The lockdown litterbugs

‘The enduring images etched in my mind after lockdown are not of nature nurtured but nature trashed, suffocating under mountains of litter’

August 28, 2020

Bright Green

The rise of “choking”

‘When the musician Andy Anokye was accused of assaulting a number of women—committing acts that included strangling them, waterboarding them, and holding a gun to one woman’s head—he offered a simple explanation

August 28, 2020

Spare Rib