Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Should booby-traps be legal?
When the state fails to protect us many want to act themselves
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
How about some vistas of beauty?
Covent Garden’s first post-lockdown offering is in a long, grim tradition
Carving out a new genre
Digital theatre is now beginning to offer stalls-starved audiences the kind of quality work they would have queued to see live
Defender of the faith
Daniel Johnson remembers Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, wise and generous friend, guide and mentor
Fighting against lockdown
The group that projects messages onto Parliament is briefing MPs behind the scenes
Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
How a twenty-year-old report started the culture wars
The Parekh report argued that ‘Britishness’ as previously understood was now defunct
What’s in the Brexit deal?
Four things the ERG’s ‘star chamber’ will need to consider before voting for the Brexit deal
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
That’s it then
Cancel the kitchen scraps for Hanbury and Serco