Dark Matter
Dark matters
Academics in this country need to allow new ideas rather than orthodoxy and group-think
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Whole lotta Lockdown
With friends like Tory backbenchers, who needs Cabinet colleagues?
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
Friends old and new
Thomas Woodham-Smith doesn’t collect, he simply accumulates stock
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
The news is Good and should be celebrated
The nation’s favourite: why Coronation Street matters
As Coronation Street celebrates its diamond jubilee, is it time to take it seriously as the chronicler of our times?
“Trans”
Dominic Green on the history of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender
Sacking of the libraries
Should libraries should sell historic manuscripts to solve short-term financial problems
Why it is right to question the orthodox Covid-19 narrative
The authors of ‘Welcome to Covidworld’ defend their stance
Plague and pestilence
Covid-19 has reawakened the medieval superstition that bad things happen to bad people