Covid
Lockdowns don’t work
Laura Dodsworth follows and photographs the guerrilla anti-lockdown campaign projected across London landmarks
10 reasons why a second lockdown is a terrible idea
The Government did not have a good reason when the first lockdown was imposed and it doesn’t have a good reason today
The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline
“My experience is no one but the government and mainstream media are sharing apocalyptic Covid-19 death experiences with me”
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Lockdown II: this time it’s politically painful
What are the numbers inside the parliamentary Tory party?
All of this has happened before
Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go
Twitter suspends lockdown challenger
Twitter suspended man challenging the Government on lockdown for “spreading potentially harmful information”
Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Rumourmongering in times of crisis
Nigel Jones compares the power of rumours in Wartime Britain with the fake news afflictions of our Covid-stricken society
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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism