Covid
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
The dangerous charms of models
Mask mandates failed
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
The flawed reasoning behind the mask “requirement” in healthcare settings
The spurious attempts of NHS chief executives to defend their positions
The rise of the panic masters
Why today’s graduates want to stay at university forever
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
An epidemic of misguided moralising
The difference between vaccine sceptics and advocates is not as great as it appears
Universities are not counselling services
By expecting them to do everything, we forget their central purpose: education
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
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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
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation