Columns
Breaking the doom loop
If we don’t return to normal now, when can we?
Breaking the Knee
The story of a man who once held his hand to the Olympic fire
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
Institutional amnesia
Central bankers have forgotten the crucial monetary lessons of the past
The bravery of big corporations
They don’t bother with the flag in their Arab outlets, because Islamic culture is far more progressive
Dead and buried
Why has a much-needed review into coroner’s services been shelved?
In search of the right stuff
Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?
Pandemic Olympiad
The Tokyo games will be an uncomfortable charade
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
Etta Parsloe
Twitter vigilante
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?