Inside the chaotic world of Zoom punditry
Our talking heads live in homes—probably nice ones. Why all the weird Zoom backgrounds?
Philosophy
The radical wrongness of Bernard Mandeville: the free marketeer whose bee analogy came back to sting him
His cherished text “The Fable of the Bees” is undermined by the fate of our modern pollinators
The duel: Is it more important to save younger lives?
If coronavirus presents medics with a stark ethical choice, which considerations should determine their course of action?
The extraordinary mind of Frank Ramsey
Although he died at 26, Ramsey was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century
How Zoom funerals are upending religious traditions
They seem eerie, but online funerals could prove emancipatory
VR can bring your loved ones "back to life"—but I wouldn't want to virtually meet my dad
Virtual reality offers us an opportunity to reach into the looking-glass of memory. But it can't replace the reality of the past
How coronavirus is giving us a crash course in a different moral universe
Duty has replaced desire as the imperative of our time, says the Bishop of Kensington
During coronavirus, even trusting in science feels like a form of faith
Whether we are religious or investing our hopes in scientific research, for many of us, this period of upheaval is changing our attitude to belief
"Theologically confusing": How Catholics are celebrating Easter under coronavirus
Being unable to properly celebrate Easter is difficult for a denomination that thrives on collective worship
Why did revered philosopher GE Moore disappear from history?
The strange story of how a man who Bertrand Russell and the Bloomsbury Group looked on as a god ended up almost completely forgotten
Britain has a culture of mistrust around sickness. Will coronavirus change that?
David Cameron condemned the UK’s “sicknote culture” as a drain on resources, while 42 per cent of managers think having the flu isn't a valid excuse to skip work. This needs to change
Can spiritual solace be found in such tragic times?
Society reckons with life’s fragility
How is the medical profession to cope with the appalling moral dilemmas it now faces?
The ethics of who lives and dies is one of the most sensitive and important problems raised by the current crisis
What Britain's stockpiling panic reveals about the nation's beliefs
Self-preservation is a basic human instinct. But in a world centered around individual survival, we mustn't forget who suffers most
Trevor Phillips is no Islamophobe—but he is playing with fire
We should be free to criticise any religious belief system so long as we choose our words with care
What working behind a bar taught me about the power of community
Working in the same pub my dad had stayed at years before, I found a greater appreciation of the role pubs play in our communities—and the harm that will be done by their closing
The strange rise of the "Tradwife" tells us more about work than feminism
The "tradwife" movement, which looks back to an earlier era of women homemakers, is often seen as a reaction to feminism. The reality is more complex
The latest thing millennials are killing? The very concept of "having friends"
Behind viral tweets revelling in time alone is an uncomfortable truth: millennials struggle to have, and keep, friends. So what's going on?
What a viral fake lasagne taught me about failure
After it appeared in the Museum of Failure in 2017, photos of the "Colgate Lasagna" began to go viral on Twitter and Reddit—not to mention in marketing seminars. But did it ever really exist?
What Westminster gets wrong about social mobility
Social mobility touches on deeply personal issues of self-understanding, authenticity and identity that policy alone can't address. I would know—I've lived it