Artillery Row

The lockdown’s founding myth

We’ve forgotten that the Imperial model didn’t even call for a full lockdown

Pained Boris muddles through

The prime minister had a bruising session at the Liaison Committee

What is the future of liberalism in Britain?

And what is the relationship between war and the state? With Nick Timothy and Jeremy Black

Germany’s judges have spoken. Should the EU be worried?

Germany’s Constitutional Court challenges whether the ECJ can decide the extent of its own power

Live free and die: Sweden’s coronavirus experience

What have we learnt from the coronavirus outlier?

‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life

Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures

The Favourite

Why Boris can’t bring himself to part with Dom

Hope and recrimination in the City of Light

Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle

You’ll need to have your eyes tested

Dominic Cummings’s long and winding road to Barnard Castle

“I am a total act” (but a second act?)

John Bowers reviews A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig