Covid
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders
For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?
Let’s open up debate about lockdowns
There’s no place in all of this for unsubstantiated claims or attempts to dismiss those who encourage the sensible consideration of alternatives
We need to protect the free speech of dissident doctors
The Covid Physician on how we can protect our civil liberties in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
The strategy behind the Covid Recovery Group
MPs fighting the lockdown are sharpening their swords for an almighty battle with No.10
There’s a Matt for That
Nurturing the flame of the candle of hope
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
Covid-19 orthodoxy and awkward looks
While questioning orthodoxies often has great value, it can also present dangers
Women’s health has been left behind
Considering women make up half of the UK’s population, it is high time that we put their wellbeing back on the priority list
Just keep swimming
Those of us who partake in open air swimming should be allowed to return to this miraculous prophylactic
IPSA That Man Again
In the future, everyone will be a WAG admin for 15 groups
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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
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy