Data & Dystopia
Racist policing | Gender bias | 'Black Mirror' style mass surveillance | Samira Rafaela | Joanna Bryson | Sarah Chander | Patrick Breyer | European data spaces | iBorderCtrl | Palantir Technologies and the NHS | Facial recognition | Pressure on Clearview AI
Standing Up to Bullies With Frans Timmermans
Frans Timmermans on fighting authoritarianism | Unmasking Farage | A rebrand for Europe Day | Donald Tusk | Olivér Várhelyi | Chasing Orbán | Coronavirus and the Green Deal | Better buildings | 55 percent | Bruce Springsteen | Joseph Roth
Winning the Car Wars
Car abatement accelerates as lockdowns ease | Pollution as a vector for the virus | Brussels urbanism chief Pascal Smet on a big bang for mobility | Mark Watts of C40 Cities on the pace of change in Amsterdam and Paris | Pollution lobbies and their playbook
Angst Over Italexit
Marco Zatterin of La Stampa | Ursula von der Leyen apologises to Italy | Lagarde's gaff | Salvini and Meloni | The spectre of Italexit | Newspapering under lockdown | Giovanni Belzoni | Poems from Ben Ray
The High Price of Muzzling Media
Reporters Without Borders | The role of free expression in fighting pandemics | Tracker 19 and Covid-19 | China | Hungary | Slovenia | Egypt | Ivan Bedrov of RFE/RL | Poetry from Ben Ray
Crisis Communications
EC Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer | Virtual pressers and accountability | Emily Dickinson | Coyness on Hungary | Israel Butler of Liberties | Framing in the age of the virus
Věra Jourová on Surveillance and Covid-19
Věra Jourová on digital tracking and privacy | Pledging to vet Viktor Orbán | Fighting disinfo with WhatsApp and YouTube | East vs. West and face masks | Czech elections in 2023 | Madeleine Albright
Coronavirus vs. Democracy
Joelle Grogan on emergency powers | The Spanish flu | Detentions | Suspending parliaments | Closing borders | Viktor Orbán and rule by decree | Sunset clauses | Poland and Bulgaria
A Field Guide to Autocrats
Michael Peel of the Financial Times | The Fabulists | The autocracy virus | European values | Muscat of Malta | Kaczyński of Poland | Orbán and Salvini | Trump at NATO | Modernizers | Historians | Existentialists
Campaigning in the Age of Bigots
Magid Magid | Europe's Biggest Bigot and Bigot-Buster awards | Kajal Odedra of Change.org | Do Something: Activism for Everyone | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Defenestration and democracy | Polarisation | Power mapping | Storylabbing