Covid Regulations
I think, therefore I’m right
We need a “Philosophy SAGE” to test the logic behind Covid policies
Template for technocrats
Nudge taught a generation of experts how to manipulate the public, free from scrutiny
Nanny knows best
Noel Yaxley imagines life 30 years after the launch of the NHS Covid App
Why is the Cabinet still so united?
There is a crisis in the country, but not in Whitehall – why?
Have Conservative MPs been taken to the limit of their endurance?
The Covid Recovery Group continues to gather momentum – and the prime minister knows it
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
Emily D’angelo: A n ar gei a (DG)
This debut album is a treat for the senses and a tonic for tired tastes
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
What bloody man is this?
The Tragic History of Boris, thane of Uxbridge
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
Chum chucking chum
Not the Nine O’Clock News, or Ten, or Eleven, or, well, any
How do we perceive the world?
This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge
Show trials for social workers
The professionals “guilty” of failing to accept the medicalisation of vulnerable children
Criminally stupid
In 1912, Parliament debated mandatory vaccines for the feeble-minded
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
The Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
Aromatherapy for chaps
Get as many days of game sport as possible because one never knows when the self-righteous will stop it