Lockdown was a choice
Agree with the policy if you like, but you can’t argue Lockdown harms were caused by Covid
Vaccine certification: when intolerance meets hypochondria
It’s high time that we stop allowing fear to rule our lives and re-establish a healthy relationship with the risks that have surrounded us since time immemorial
Vaccine passports and the recalibration of social ethics
Vaccine passports would undermine one of the most fundamental rights in a civilised society: autonomy over one’s own body
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
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The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
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.
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?