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
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
