“Afterwards, I asked: ‘Who am I now?’”: How it feels to escape the far right
Lauren Manning on the fear, danger and freedom of leaving the white supremacist movement.
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Devi Sridhar: “The longer the UK delays lockdown, the longer it will last”
The Edinburgh professor on how Britain has failed against Covid-19 and why the best way to save the economy is…
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Sweden’s Anders Tegnell: We did not pursue “herd immunity” against Covid-19
The Swedish state epidemiologist defends his country’s handling of the virus and gives his verdict on the UK’s coronavirus response. …
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Andreas Malm: “The likely future is escalating catastrophe”
The Swedish author on how the climate crisis is dramatically increasing the risk of future pandemics.
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Mad behaviour: the psychologist Joseph Henrich on what makes us weird
The Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
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The barefoot professor: Daniel Lieberman on why humans are born to run
After realising our ancestors would never have chosen to work out, the evolutionary biologist wrote “an anti-bullshit book” on health and exercise.
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Owen Jones: “I begged John McDonnell to stand for Labour leader”
The Guardian columnist on why the Corbyn project failed, journalism as activism, and living in fear.
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Death in the countryside
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the youngest winner of the International Booker Prize, discusses grief and memory.
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