Covid
Come on, Boris. It’s time to end the lockdown
The onus should now be on those seeking to extend the lockdown to justify their reasoning
Letter from Paris
Life goes on in the city of light – even if nobody knows quite what they should be doing
Letter from Buenos Aires
Lockdown is not a quiet affair in Argentina’s capital
The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
It’s hurting but it’s just not working
The government’s Covid-19 cure is worse than the virus
Diversity in scepticism
Questioning the lockdown isn’t a Brexit or culture wars thing
Covid-19’s willing accomplice
How Tedros Ghebreyesus and the WHO devastated the world to flatter China
Lawrence Wright’s pandemic prescience
An interview with the man who saw it coming
Learning from History
Despite Coronavirus, some things will never change
Starmer for the Prosecution
At his first PMQs, Labour’s new leader offered a masterclass in constructive opposition
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons