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 Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
