Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
György Ligeti: The 13 Etudes (Hyperion)
If you want to know what a piano can do, you really need to settle down with this absorbing world of sound
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Have schools lost their true purpose?
Schools have become too focussed on training talent in service of the economy to the detriment of individual and collective flourishing
Is Boris Johnson just a boy who can’t say ‘No’?
The prime minister always says “come on, let’s go” – jist when he orta say nix!
How the Hate Crime Bill defies Scottish tradition
With a stroke of the legislative pen, Holyrood has made Scotland the most stringent regulator of speech in the UK
The enduring legacy of Michel Foucault
How the French philosopher founded today’s social justice movement
Our very British brand of totalitarianism
While sales of “1984” went through the roof this past year, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision is much more likely to come true than George Orwell’s
Reclaiming the altar of wokery
Laurence Fox has better credentials for engaging with the woke generation than the average Tory MP
Three first-rate books on maps
What about the past should and could be mapped, and how to do so, are vexed issues in cartographic studies