A sea of staring eyes
Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning
Badges of obedience
Behind the NHS Rainbow is compulsory training and enforced ideology
The perils of a speaker unchained
Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it
More leaks, Mr Speaker
If we leaked the entire budget to the opposition, we might get better government
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Ring of fire
The ENO’s production of The Valkyrie may lack flames, but it is convincing nonetheless
“The new Liberace” strikes again
Nigel Kennedy’s latest principled stand against “Jurassic“ FM and the forces of musical conservatism
Beware of the bull
The post-Covid stock market boom will be brought to an end by rising inflation
A short history of war
Professor Jeremy Black offers Graham Stewart a crash course in the history of war
Arrest the chest
The danger of endorsing extreme gender ideology
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves