Editor's choice

Are we lioness enough to question the Brexit elephant?

Why The BMJ will no longer report on unsubstantiated press releases

The inconvenient truths of health and climate crises that can’t just be ignored

Long covid and apheresis: a miracle cure sold on a hypothesis of hope

Especially in adversity, we need fresh thinking

Death and ill health by order of the Supreme Court

Examining our failings

A system reset for the campaign against too much medicine

The GMC has lost the profession’s trust and respect

Blame game: apportioning responsibility for bad outcomes is difficult and fraught

Erosion of healthcare for those who need it most

The red flag patient data breaches of a wannabe global data superpower

Choices that fail health and wellbeing

Mind your language to catalyse the patient revolution

Johnson’s bigger crime is failing to take the nation’s health seriously enough

Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal

Prosecuting war crimes demands outrage, will, and action

Workforce, airborne transmission, and wilful neglect

Climate, pandemic, and war: an uncontrolled multicrisis of existential proportions

Russia’s war: Why The BMJ opposes an academic boycott

Russia’s war: Why The BMJ, opposes an academic boycott

Take courage, speak up, and act

Progress against health inequities is slow and obstacles are numerous

Why the new normal might be the old normal—but worse

Give Africa what Africa really wants

Medical research needs a Sue Gray

A Hippocratic oath for medical communicators

Folic acid supplementation and the complexities of blame

Covid-19: This is a gamble and not a plan

Prioritising health to save lives

Pure imagination

My final choice: speaking truth to power

Covid 19: Why we need a global pandemic treaty

The dangers in policy and practice of following the consensus

Investing in public health is our best route to sustainable healthcare

From health to climate there is disrespect at the heart of every crisis

Covid 19: A strong pandemic response relies on good data

Memo to COP26 leaders: abandon your hubris, politics, and pride and see the future through young people’s eyes

Why healthcare needs rebels

Covid-19: Fatal errors, not fatalism, created UK’s public health disaster

A world on the edge of climate disaster

Thinking time, the scarce rocket fuel of health services

It is our governments’ duty to protect health

The next step in immorality: charging to create and cure disease

It’s time for all doctors to engage on assisted dying

Why we need to make space for grief

Vaccines should not be the preserve of rich countries

A new leader for the NHS in its summer of discontent

Covid-19: The UK’s political gamble that bodes ill for health and the health service

Caution, vaccines, testing: the only way forward

Covid 19: We need a full open independent investigation into its origins

Dear Sajid Javid: open letter to a new minister of health

How can we manage covid fatigue?

Covid-19: Failures of leadership, national and global

Governments should be made to work harder to keep public trust

The covid-19 pandemic took power from the people

Declaring competing interests is a duty for doctors, scientists, and politicians

Covid-19: Why prioritising prevention matters in a pandemic of cures

Covid-19: Why we must temper urgency with diligence

India’s crisis is everyone’s crisis

Covid-19: How can we keep the world’s doctors safe?

How do we tackle structural racism and inequality?

Covid-19: Vaccine woes highlight vital role of traditional public health

Covid-19: Vaccine woes highlight vital role of traditional public health

You can’t stop the bleep

O leader, where art thou?

Covid-19 dissenters—or the virtue in being less cheerful

At the end of the covid-19 storm, another one is brewing

Covid 19: Why we can’t risk another wave

It’s self-interest to share our vaccines globally

NHS reorganisation: We don’t need a big bang

Covid 19: Two million deaths, so what went wrong?

Covid-19: Five steps to escape the cycle of lockdowns

Why vaccinating staff and supporting self-isolating people are national emergencies

Covid 19: Hope is being eclipsed by deep frustration

Covid 19: Widening divisions will take time to heal

­­Speaking truth to power

Inspirations and silver linings in a pandemic year

Covid-19: Transparency and communication are key

Covid-19: The lost lessons of Tamiflu

The curious case of the Danish mask study

Covid-19: Screening without scrutiny, spending taxpayers’ billions

Covid-19: We need new thinking and new leadership

The democratic, political, and scientific failures of covid-19

Covid-19: Why we still need more women in academia

Why this US election matters so much

Covid-19 and net zero for health

Covid-19: This time it’s personal for GPs

Covid-19: We need to understand the risks to tackle them

Covid-19: The fatal attraction of herd immunity

Covid-19: Flying before we can walk

Covid-19: Shooting for the moon

Living with covid-19

Covid-19: Less haste, more safety

Behavioural fatigue: a flawed idea central to a flawed pandemic response

Covid-19: Acts of omission

Covid-19: What we eat matters all the more now

Moving quickly in pandemics

Getting it right in the pandemic

Covid 19: Where’s the strategy for testing?