Seven indicators that show infections were falling before Lockdown 3.0
Data from seven different indicators establishes that infections were already in decline in England before the January lockdown
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
The cost of being a lockdown sceptic
The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
The enduring legacy of Michel Foucault
How the French philosopher founded today’s social justice movement
What wine meant to Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton moved through personal tragedy and objective philosophy to justify wine as a “social intoxicant”
Copland, Nielsen, MacMillan: Clarinet concertos (Delphian)
Of all clarinet concertos, including Mozart’s, Aaron Copland’s is Norman Lebrecht’s favourite by a Siamese smile
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
Elgar: Violin concerto/violin sonata (Warner)
Elgar works best when a conductor appears to do least
Wonderful call of the wild
Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams