Face Masks
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
Face masks make you stupid
Why face masks are a form of dehumanisation
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
