A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Triumph of the trans lobbyists
Julie Bindel on how transgender ideologists are winning the battle for media hearts and minds
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
The coming SNP civil war
Alex Salmond is planning his revenge as soon as Coronavirus passes
A Pauline conversion
Christopher Pincher discovers a family wine business in the south east of Sancerre
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth