Artillery Row
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
Happy Holidays?
View from Oxford: a year in woke
Court out
Court delays and backlogs gave the government wide margins of authority during Covid-19
The new Covid-19 strain is a political disaster of our own making
By seeking answers to scientific questions no-one had asked, we find ourselves assigning importance to discoveries which may have none
Scars: stories of human resilience
Scars affect how we are seen and are often imbued with negative connotations – but instead of seeing a scar, can we see a story?
Ofcom threatens diversity of opinion
Is it actually the function of our cultural institutions to reflect society as divided into arbitrary interest groups; and, even so, is it any business of the state, acting through Ofcom?
Male transgenderism is sexism on steroids
Why is it that Eddie Izzard strutting in heels is perceived as more progressive than us boring old vulva-owners in our flat shoes?
Britain’s contrarian Cassandra
Peter Hitchens is the courageous Cassandra of our age. But is his unrelenting pessimism undermining his conservative message?
What is truth?
Banging on about “the methods of science” is not a good argument
Boiling the bioethical frog
Have we passed the point of no return? The Covid Physician warns against crossing the bioethical Rubicon