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The NHS is the new Church — Militant and Triumphant
The clinical decisions rushed through in March had a single goal: to protect the reputation of the NHS
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
Catch that pigeon!
Patrick Galbraith takes aim at an agricultural pest
An opera critic in lockdown
The critic, like a used-up traveller in ladies’ corsetry in a Fifties film, is enjoying a happy furlough
Without a hitch
Hannah Betts on a coronavirus upside: no bridezilla weddings
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Why do we need a privacy elite?
The world has conformed to Silicon Valley’s way of doing business
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
