Court out
Court delays and backlogs gave the government wide margins of authority during Covid-19
Sinclair Hood: The archaeologist who bucked orthodoxy
The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable
Fundragers splash the cash
The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted
Faith Masks
The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful
In defence of lockdown sceptics
Alistair Haimes is wrong – the facts against a third lockdown haven’t changed
Plague and pestilence
Covid-19 has reawakened the medieval superstition that bad things happen to bad people
Why Ireland’s blasphemy law needed to go
Insult for its own sake is childish and banal, but the ability to strongly criticise any creed is absolutely vital in a healthy democracy
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Stonewall take another hostage
The head of Ofcom thinks it’s “extremely inappropriate” to have guests that disagree with trans activists
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 5th symphony/Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
Symphonies to give you hope and vision