Covid
So close, so far
Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
Has Britain gone mad?
The myth of fighting conspiracy theories can be as comforting as the real thing
Secret sex lives in Victorian England
Prepare to fall in like with three new books
The vax distracts
Anti-vax nonsense is dragging the Right away from real crises
Abolish the disinformation reporter
Disinformation reporting is becoming activist journalism
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
Letting the mask slip
An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
Covid and the Church of England’s retreat
Parishioners were ill-served by the Church’s pandemic response
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
