Face Masks
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
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
The price of safety
From school face masks to how to pay for Covid – Tory MPs are getting nervous
Face masks make you stupid
Why face masks are a form of dehumanisation
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
Flight COVID-19 is now boarding
The grimness of my flight to Delhi bespoke the special cruelty of this crisis
Why do women matter so little?
The outrageous policing of political speech by Wiltshire Police
Ms Harris would like to speak to you
The Democratic VP candidate’s officious manner betrays a bureaucratic vindictiveness
Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Is there a future for GCSEs and A levels?
The examination system is far from broken, so stop trying to replace it