Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
Solo Lockdown
Why social isolation hits singletons the hardest
Title Dodgers
It’s not just Harry and Meghan who have dropped their titles
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
