Stay alert – because we fear change
The narrative of Tory callousness is re-emerging
Boris on the box. Or Boris at the despatch box?
Should lockdown policy be announced in televised addresses or to a near-empty parliament?
Speak for liberalism, Ed
Ed Davey has sacrificed the LibDems’ commitment to civil liberties
“We’re not going to subordinate our laws to theirs in any areas.”
There’s only two months left for one side to climb down, or the EU-UK talks will fail.
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
Starmer for the Prosecution
At his first PMQs, Labour’s new leader offered a masterclass in constructive opposition
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
Is England denying Scotland vital PPE?
The supposed scandal in Scotland has got the facts back to front
Rebecca Long Bailey – classroom warrior
On schools policy, Keir Starmer is no heir to Blair
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
