Harrumphing and hot air
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s polemic against coronavirus lockdowns is “a stale little bonbon”
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
From self-ID to no-ID
You’ll be amazed what they’re trying to get away with now
Have cake. Eat cake. More cake. What cake?
Boris breaks his promises by announcing he has a plan
Japan v China — the history of a rivalry
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the centuries-old military rivalry between China and Japan
Crime without punishment
It should not be difficult to distinguish between political protest and disrupting national life
Astroturfing XR
Why are Extinction Rebellion pretending not to be linked to “Insulate Britain”?
Turning caretakers into killers
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill offers no real safeguards for the most vulnerable patients
Who are friends to judge us?
It turns out the system was wrong, we now discover
“No debate” no longer an option
Persuasion works: three new books by gender critical feminists have captured public attention in spite of publishers
Priest holes and priest hunters
By excluding the unvaccinated from the Eucharist, the church sets its face against the faithful