Covid
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Total lack of recall
Taking a walk down memory wilderness with Rishi Sunak
There is still no pandemic plan
The Covid inquiry could help improve our response to the next crisis, but is not asking the right questions
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
Revisionist lockdown history
The public health establishment is being whitewashed over COVID
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
Public health porkers
COVID lockdowns do not excuse endless authoritarian measures
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
