Face Masks
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
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
High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra (Reference Recordings)
Based on MacMillan’s choral setting of Psalm 51, the Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
Business as usual in Peppa Pig World
Forget cake, it’s Boris’s porkie pies that will cause him problems
Rule of silence
Good laws can’t be made if we don’t talk about them, and bad laws can’t be repealed in silence
Criminalising Christians
Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries
Robert the Lionheart
Rob Burrow approaches MND like he did Rugby League: with bravery and without fear
Double-oh dear
How can Keir Starmer want a female James Bond when he can’t even define what a woman is?
Heil Greta
It’s time for Greta-worshippers to subject her claims to the same scrutiny as other major political figures
Better late than never
The BBC finally drop Stonewall
What does it mean to be a woman?
Trans activists purporting to be women in the “wrong” body are incapable of understanding our day-to-day lives
Inside Ethiopia’s civil wars
Abiy Ahmed has joined the long list of Africa’s “democrats” who became dictators