Face Masks
A chronic case of mask fever
Masking in medical contexts represents the triumph of culture over science
Let’s face it
Governments use masking to force compliance, not fight viruses
A sea of staring eyes
Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning
Feeling testy
Rules are for the rest of you
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Continued mask wearing won’t help us return to normal
Psychologists know it will do the opposite
The happy-clappy compassion mask
Ewa and Mateusz Dymek say cruelty is being masked by compassion
How the government has exploited our human response to danger
Olivia Hartley speaks to Laura Dodsworth about face masks, religious faith, and how public health has become a criminal justice matter
Face masks diminish the romance of everyday life
Smiling – one of the primary expressions of our common humanity – has been rendered invisible by the ubiquity of face masks
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
Wakefield and the revival of Labour Britain
After an electoral disaster in the 1930s, Wakefield kickstarted the new Labour era. Can it do the same for Starmer?
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
L’Architecture of Lanarkshire
Urban planning should depend on local residents more than abstract debates
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Boris in a bind
It is time for Tory MPs to do the only honourable thing
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing