Covid
No right answers, only judgments
The state of the Dolan challenge to the Government’s Lockdown policies
The SNP is winning. What is the plan to stop them?
Nicola Sturgeon runs rings around her Scottish opponents. But are there stronger adversaries in Whitehall?
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
The case for socialist healthcare in one country
If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?
Can the BBC rebuild our schools?
To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family
In praise of the Great British pub
Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model
Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?
Into the lion’s mouth
Nigel Jones laments the rise of the British snitch
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
