The story of 2020 in New Statesman covers Including Gary Younge on systemic racism, Timothy Snyder on the US’s “politics of pain” and our special issue on how the UK failed over Covid-19.
21 February: The age of pandemics: coronavirus and the geopolitics of disease In the early days of the Covid outbreak, the science writer Laura Spinney looked back to the 1918 flu epidemic. After 50 million were killed, new global organisations were created to fight infection – but in an age of renewed great power rivalry, she argued presciently, they are no longer enough. Read the full story