Britain’s armed forces to the rescue?
And is Scottish Labour still relevant for Starmer’s Labour Party?
Can parliament work by Zoom?
And are universities in crisis?
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
Where is God?
James Orr on how the Church is facing-up to Coronavirus
Podcast on Prepping
Oliver Wiseman reports back from a Prepper camp in West Virginia
The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
Don’t tell us the truth!
Richard Waghorne says the Blitz spirit means suppressing information about Corona
David Starkey on the role of Parliament
Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
