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
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
