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The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
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Editorial
Endure today, build tomorrow
Contributors
Joanna Bourke teaches history at Birkbeck. She is director
Letters
Going it alone?
Opinions
A motion to regret virtual parliaments
Well it finally happened. Parliament, like your mum
Human suffering, political advantages
Now Boris Johnson has recovered from a nasty bout of
Shakespeare’s answer to the plague? More sex and comedy
It says something about the apocalyptic tone of lockdown
Criminalising ordinary life
AT LAW
The benefits of staying boring in terrifying times
If I’ve learnt one thing in a decade living in Sweden
Lopsided lockdown
A familiar phrase from the news is that coronavirus
Is it more important to save younger lives?
YES If we are faced with a tragic choice, as doctors
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The dawn after the darkest hour
From the Black Death to the world wars and now Covid-19, serious crises do not merely test societies but reorder them- sometimes to the good. With effort and imagination can we, once again, shake off a nightmare and wake ourselves into a brighter tomorrow?
Apatchwork planet
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the arbitrary way in which we have stitched globalisation together. It’s time to go back to first principles, and tailor a new set of international rules around them
Who is the WHO?
As it manages a gruesome pandemic in a messy world, the World Health Organisation stands attacked from all sides. But things would be a lot better if everyone had taken its advice
Essays
Passing the test How Germany fought back against Covid-19 while the UK floundered
The two nations logged their first coronavirus cases just two days apart. But while the UK has one of the highest death tolls in the world, Germany has one of Europe’s lowest. Why?
The new ministry of food
How the government outsourced food security to the supermarkets
Infinite possibility
Bernardine Evaristo spent decades on the margins of the literary mainstream, telling the stories of black British women. Then she won the Booker Prize
In search of sleep
We crave it, we worry about it, we buy things to improve it. But is our growing obsession with slumber dragging us further away from a restful night?
Arts and books
Satan’s finger
He is condemned for his cynicism and lauded as the
Constitutional weakness
Indian democracy relies on a much-mythologised founding document that has failed to protect minorities from Narendra Modi, argues Shruti Kapila
The shame game
Social stigma can be a potent political weapon, finds Joanna Bourke
An extraordinary mind
Although he died at 26, Frank Ramsey was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, says Alex Dean
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Policy report: Trade
Responding to the coronavirus pandemic is now the overwhelming priority for governments the world over. But as the economy craters, some other policy issues become even more pressing-including global trade. It is profoundly important to Brexit Britain’s hopes of prosperity, but with Covid-19 it is shrinking. New barriers have emerged, with some countries even imposing export controls on essential medical supplies. How can the UK navigate this newly tough trading landscape and thrive in the years ahead? The relevant secretary of state and committee chair set out their answers below.
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