Matt Hancock: Obstinate or Innumerate?
The Health Secretary’s latest statistical blunder shows his wishful thinking
Would the UK have half the Covid deaths if Boris had “followed the science”?
“Professor Lockdown” argued against the one measure that really might have helped
The Fatal Hubris of Professor Lockdown
It wasn’t an attractive 38 year-old that brought down Neil Ferguson
The return of Project Fear
It didn’t take long for the Remainiacs to weaponise the coronavirus crisis
Come on, Boris. It’s time to end the lockdown
The onus should now be on those seeking to extend the lockdown to justify their reasoning
A response on the cost of the coronavirus shutdown
The choice is between switching to mitigation or maintaining the lockdown indefinitely
Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?
Toby Young questions whether the drastic measures put in place now will harm us more in the future
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
No need to plead guilty
The fashionable doctrine of ‘white privilege’ is fatally undermined by the facts
Darren against Remain’s Goliath
Abused as a criminal and fined £20,000 by the regulator, a hero of Brexit has been vindicated
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight