Mutant variations and the danger of lockdowns
Have non-pharmaceutical interventions, including lockdowns and social distancing, enabled more dangerous virus variants to thrive?
For the Sisters or the Misters?
Sisters Uncut have more in common with the thuggish police officers from the Clapham Common vigil than they would care to admit
Museums need to refocus on their collections
Dinah Casson’s book will inspire and galvanise anyone involved in British provincial museums
Should asylum be granted for life?
Lessons for Priti Patel on how Denmark reduced its appeal to asylum seekers
Joined-up strategy?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how US and British defence and security reviews depart from, or continue, a coherent western strategic worldview
Cancelled by my barristers’ chambers over a Tweet
Cancel culture is a straitjacket on the free expression of ideas, and democracy cannot hope to function when antagonists are muzzled
The fine art of beetroot
Lisa Hilton swoons over postmodern but pricy three-star brilliance in Paris
You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
Paul Ritter: a consummate scene-stealer
Alexander Larman recalls the life and legacy of Paul Ritter, who has died at the age of 54
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first