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Latest issue

Ten lessons of the pandemic: How Covid-19 exposed a global crisis of leadership, by Philip Ball

Plus:

• The tech populists: Chris Bickerton on why demagogues have embraced the new politics of science

• Anders Tegnell: The epidemiologist on Sweden’s battle with coronavirus

• Helen Lewis on Hilary Mantel

• Pippa Bailey: Why I deleted Facebook