Covid
Crunching the numbers
If Labour had voted against restrictions, could the Covid rebels have won?
Full list of Coronavirus rebels
Tory Rebels number 59 but Boris still gets his Tiers
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
A day in the life of the Covid Physician
Johnson, Whitty, Vallance, Hancock, and SAGE worry the Covid Physician far more than Covid-19 does
Why Aristotle was right about causation
The Michael Dummett vs Antony Flew debate: What comes first, the cause or the effect?
Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
December 2020: Letters to the Editor
In praise of lockdown
Time for the Covid-19 protest kiss
You don’t have to rush the Bastille to regain some freedom; a French kiss will suffice
Data limits
It appears Kier’s tiers’ fears draw near
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?