A series of tubes
Imperial College’s Covid-19 coding is unintelligible
Helpful advice for the police
Enforce actual laws, don’t bumptiously police the ones you’d like
A nation of lawyers
Secret, haphazard pseudo-laws are not the way to treat the coronavirus
Our offended selves
Subjective, judge-diagnosed feelings cannot be the basis for law
Policing the Courts
The principles behind Harry Miller are for politicians to determine, not judges or the police
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?
Why is Saudi Arabia locking up women’s rights activists?
Women like Loujain al-Hathloul are “premature reformers”: their crime is to demand social change before the state is ready to concede it
Star Wars goes woke
Racist cats in racist hats, Star Wars goes woke and a quick guide to cancelling a conservative
Crowned heads and brass hats
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs
Mutant variations and the danger of lockdowns
Have non-pharmaceutical interventions, including lockdowns and social distancing, enabled more dangerous virus variants to thrive?
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
Is it time for the honours system to go?
From the questionable calibre of candidates to clandestine cancellations, Michael Collins queries the future of this (not so) honourable tradition
Nature’s design
Gardens start with a pencil and paper says Hephzibah Anderson
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?