Will the shock of COVID change anything?
Collectively, we’ve had a sort of out-of-body experience — looked at our lives from outside
In praise of statue-toppling
Sir Edward Colston’s statue was not about history but estimation. Our era is entitled to its own response
You’re not special — just ask Google
I have quietly accepted that my interior life (and yours) may be rather accurately guessed at by an algorithm
Lessons from Eyam, the plague village that isolated from the world
Estimates of mortality range between a third and two-thirds of all the inhabitants
The difficult balance of public vs political agony
Along comes a crisis that offers a Conservative government a historic chance to show that they care
Don’t let anyone tell you there’s a war on
A grown-up citizenry does not confuse intelligent questioning with unpatriotic breaking of the ranks
The secret excitement that lurks beneath our distress
In the corner of your mind, keep alive the small, flickering flame of suspicion
The concept of Evil is an evasion
It’s a way of hiding our eyes from what men are or can be, or can do
Only Boris can bury Brexit
The next PM will have promised the electorate something that she or he is quite unable to deliver
