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Dali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect

A surge in cases of a rare autoimmune disease during COVID-19 waves in England led to the discovery of a new syndrome.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, try going for a bike ride

Trio of plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter

Businesses saw their profit margins spike by 30% compared with the pre-COVID period, stoking claims of profiteering by big firms.

The Slovakia Prime Minister remains in stable but serious condition after attack by ‘lone wolf’ in European country

The number of people stuck in hospital for more than three weeks has risen 15% on pre-Covid levels

The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum disputes about everything from gender and sexuality, and race and religious freedom in schools, to climate change and the…

Former civil servant who investigated Partygate says power-sharing executive was prone to ‘silo working’ and leaks