While lockdowns were arguably necessary, Adam Wagner warns that when governments give themselves drastic powers, they don’t always give them back. Stephen Buranyi uncovers how Big Pharma is using its vaccine success to double down on profit rather than protect us. Gabriel Scally and Sunetra Gupta debate whether it's worth trying to eliminate Covid altogether. Plus: an interview with Carlo Rovelli, master of the universe, while Julia Bell explains how her ex-student got radicalised online.
An anti-Johnson ticket and a chance to escape domestic troubles makes this election a gift for Nicola Sturgeon's party—regardless of what happens across the rest of the UK
Forget poppies and union jack car decals. Those who want Scotland and Northern Ireland to stay in the union should be making space for more, not less, diversity of identity