Artillery Row

Are the government’s Covid-19 restrictions legal?

What is the Dolan case and should the government be worried?

Pasteurisation of the pub

Pubs may have reopened, but its new landlord is the Nanny State

The Lockdown Lobotomy

The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could

The demise of the second-hand bookshop

Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller

Blame the Critic

Whose fault is acting essentialism?

Life has become the avoidance of death

In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.

Women Can Be Cancelled, Too

Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture

Art in Paris under Covid

Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle

Theodorakis and Christou: Intersection 1955

The Ballad of Mauthausen ranks among the most beautiful music ever written about the Nazi Holocaust

I’m a political orphan

Being an old-style radical is not winning me many friends – but I’m staying put