Venice after people

This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered

And if it is – how worried should we be? Graham Stewart talks to Alistair Haimes

Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be

The historical power struggle between uniformity and decentralisation

Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism

There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes

Pubs may have reopened, but its new landlord is the Nanny State

The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could

In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.