Improving Brexit
Ways to improve the Brexit deal without compromising on sovereignty
Trouble in vaccine valley
Von der Leyen’s Covid nationalism could do real damage to the EU’s vaccine hub
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
Will Brexit mean us getting the fags we want?
The current state of the transition talks
Five reasons WHO must be rethought
A crisis mustn’t be allowed to let WHO lay us to waste
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
