Faith Masks
The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
Is Belarus entitled to sovereignty?
In the air or on the ground
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
What’s it like to have a home? Part I
In the 1980s, Britain closed most of its mental hospitals, and some of the patients became my friends
The House of Lords
The Rump Parliament had the right idea in 1649 when it closed down the upper chamber as “useless”
Murders for the summer holidays
Jeremy Black recommends a menagerie of disturbing animal-themed stories to entertain throughout the summer
Can public art ever be any good?
Nobody could accuse Hockney of over-exerting himself
The problem with adapting classic novels
Following the letdown of the new adaptation of The Pursuit of Love, Alexander Larman says that TV dramatisations of classic novels haven’t always been this bad
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Debunking Trans ideology
Jo Bartosch is joined by Helen Joyce to discuss her new book and how the direction of the Trans movement is damaging to young homosexuals