Covid
Hancock of a thousand faces
Not another Matt Hancock reinvention
Lockdown lessons
People should have been allowed to manage their own risk
The people sing
The Chinese have had enough of lockdowns
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
COVID truth and reconciliation
We must learn the lessons of our pandemic response
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
