A city of SpAds
Giving up on London is not a capital idea
Don’t break laws to make laws
Why is a Tory government proposing to extend the scope of the Human Rights Act?
Four countries in none
Devolution during a pandemic does no good for the patient Union
Sacred Legal Ordering
Is Jonathan Sumption the man to judge the judges?
The state of the unionists
Devocrats need to start rejecting Nationalist logic
Is live music in Britain doomed?
It would be little short of a tragedy if our music industry ends up being finished off by the mismanagement of a a vulgar little virus
Slow death of the know-it-all
Peter Burke’s new book helpfully provokes the reader to think about the proper place of a broad education in an age unfriendly to polymathy
China’s media empire
China’s leaders are growing impatient as they seek to shape world opinion
The magician’s dismay
The showman spotted the rabbit hopping about backstage, but was forced to carry on with his trick
Banned from researching trans
Perceived criticism of trans orthodoxy was too much for one university
Class matters: why rugby league players don’t receive knighthoods
Despite a mass public campaign, Kevin Sinfield hasn’t received a knighthood this year. It comes as no surprise to rugby league fans
Should sitcoms be resurrected?
If there is to be a Frasier revival, producers should learn from the mistakes of past spin-off shows
Blueprints for laughter, life, love and belonging
Fiction works on the understanding that none of it really happened; we agree to believe it anyway, says John Self
Is there a cultural Iron Curtain emerging in Europe?
Central and eastern European states want a better standard of living, but not at the cost of their sovereignty
Don’t look for any great departures in Biden’s domestic policy
The Republican opposition has no reason to enable any element of Biden’s agenda and every reason to oppose it