Covid
Africa’s Covid-19 response has humbled the Western world
Why is it that Africa has seemingly dealt with the coronavirus pandemic better than the rest of the world?
Survival of the fittest
Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
The unremarkable truth about America’s Covid response
The US handling of Covid-19 does not make it a ‘failed state’
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
Life is more important than art
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has failed to live up to its responsibility as an industry leader
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
