Covid-19 Deaths
The stupidity of lockdown revealed society’s nihilism
Why were we content to ruin the lives of so many?
Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
Does it all add up to you?
The British state can neither gather, interpret, nor explain its own statistics
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
