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Friday, 16 October, 2020

Friday, 9 October, 2020

Coronavirus economic impact

Boris Johnson’s grandiosity is sliding into imprudence

The UK government needs to get real about the crisis if confidence is to return

Friday, 2 October, 2020

Education

Vocation, vocation should be UK middle class’s new mantra

Technical skills and vocational training may be worth more than a university education

Friday, 25 September, 2020

Coronavirus economic impact

Scaremongering will damage the UK’s fragile economy

Ministers should think harder about the best way to slow the spread of Covid-19

Friday, 18 September, 2020

Climate change

Political division makes the fight against climate change ever harder

Tackling extreme weather should be as obvious an imperative as Covid-19 — we must change the argument

Friday, 11 September, 2020

Brexit

State aid is the wrong Brexit hill to die on

Why stall an EU trade deal by tinkering with an issue where the UK has a poor record?

Friday, 4 September, 2020

Civil Service UK

An agile UK civil service needs more than ‘Star Trek’ screens

Things will still blow up in the government’s whizzy new, data-rich command centre

Friday, 28 August, 2020

Work-life balance

Make time to rest or the world will steal it from you

Switching off confers competitive advantages at work, but most are really bad at it

Friday, 21 August, 2020

Parenting and families

Adult children are straining the generosity of parents

Demands for extended support are growing, but an Italian judge has put her foot down

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Friday, 24 July, 2020

Russian politics

The UK must take Russian meddling more seriously

Parliamentary report shows Moscow’s influence is no laughing matter

Friday, 17 July, 2020

UK politics & policy

A chance to reshape UK public health strategy and target obesity

Boris Johnson must disappoint Conservative libertarians on sugar tax and other interventions before a Covid-19 second wave

Friday, 10 July, 2020

UK employment

Rishi Sunak’s short-term jobs plan tackles long-term failures in the UK economy

The long tail of low-paid, low-skilled workers has been a persistent stain on society, but this crisis is a chance for change

Friday, 3 July, 2020

UK Government

The Boris Johnson plan is far from conservative

By citing FDR, the UK prime minister has signalled an activist government that makes Thatcherites nervous

Friday, 26 June, 2020

Climate change

We must build back greener after Covid-19

The pandemic may be wreaking lasting changes in public attitudes to climate change goals

Friday, 12 June, 2020

Workplace diversity & equality

Progress towards gender equality at work is draining away

British mothers are more likely than fathers to have lost or left their jobs during lockdown

Friday, 5 June, 2020

Brexit

An ending to the Brexit drama is yet to be scripted

London and Brussels resume negotiations as December’s final curtain approaches

Friday, 29 May, 2020

Dominic Cummings

Downing Street advisers have a damaging history

Cummings survives because he is effective, but such relationships at the top can become a liability

Friday, 22 May, 2020

Mental health

Strain begins to show amid deprivations of confinement

It is natural for morale to dip when our social ties have been severed

Friday, 15 May, 2020

Smart cities

The pandemic is killing the attraction of megacities

You cannot be in the urban swing of things if there is no swing

Friday, 8 May, 2020

Ageing Populations

The old are not equally vulnerable to Covid-19

Reducing pensioners to ‘old dears’ ignores their wisdom and physical vitality

Friday, 1 May, 2020

FT CollectionsBest of this week’s opinion

Obesity dangers make Covid-19 a rebuke to unequal societies

Excess body fat seems to matter more than heart or lung disease, or smoking, when it comes to catching the virus

Friday, 24 April, 2020

National Health Service

Covid-19 has revolutionised the NHS

The crisis exposed the system was on a knife edge, but the emergency changes are for the better

Friday, 17 April, 2020

Parenting and families

What we should tell our children about coronavirus

Too often, as parents our overprotective urges stem from our own insecurities

Friday, 10 April, 2020

National Health Service

We must break down the boundaries between NHS and social care

The crisis is shedding light on the vital role of an unheralded army of workers

Friday, 3 April, 2020

UK universities

Universities are pleading for a bailout to paper over their failures

Many pursued a high-risk strategy of debt and expansion; now they must work together or go to the wall

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