D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts
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’
The importance of talking about nothing
Covid-19 is forcing abrupt change on Japanese office life and traditions
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
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”:
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
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’
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
Tolerating the intolerant
"For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again"
The Overshoot
A poem from Zonal