Artillery Row
Is test and trace really this government’s greatest failing?
Angela Rayner’s PMQs debut was passionate, and strangely nostalgic
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
Why observe the laws the EU won’t?
Brussels has a very distinctive attitude towards its sacred legal order
The need for a UK Secession Clarity Act
The Deputy Leader of the Alliance for Unity makes a case for clarity
Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
Why is Britain good at R&D but has so few major tech companies?
Mike Lynch offers his solutions – from ARM to post-Brexit regulation
The unremarkable truth about America’s Covid response
The US handling of Covid-19 does not make it a ‘failed state’
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
Cancelling exams would only widen educational inequality
China’s Long March
How should the UK and its allies treat the rise of China?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections