Dominic Cummings
Dominic Cummings and the illusion of control
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how woefully mistaken Cummings’ hopes were for lasting civil service reform
No one guilty at the BBC
No one in BBC management ever pays a price for the BBC’s mistakes.They just happen, like the weather
The Cummings I knew
Did Dominic Cummings learn his management style from Klute Nightclub in Durham?
The man who wasn’t there wasn’t there
Boris virtually
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
Dominic Cummings’s 2020 vision
Why didn’t Dom do data?
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
Who will be the next No.10 Chief?
The runners and riders for the Downing St. Chief of Staff job
Expelliarmus!
Harry Potter is cancelled, Sainsbury’s cancel their shoppers, Taxpayers fund Stonewall, and packing the (UK) Supreme Court
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
