Artillery Row

How does a Lions Tour compare to playing in the Rugby World Cup?

Graham Stewart and Boris Starling discuss the forthcoming Lions tour of South Africa

In praise of Sky Pool

Social distancing means something different up here

Letter from Washington: Do Democrats really want to learn from 2020?

A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems

Writing bigly

Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book

The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)

This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport

Black Spartacus

The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti

Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling

The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature

The decline of the quality press

Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster

Continued mask wearing won’t help us return to normal

Psychologists know it will do the opposite

Arafat and me

David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization