Government
Will the summer recess really be a break?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks
Boris’s war on obesity will fail
The government’s new anti-obesity crusade will not tackle obesity, only obesity statistics
Passport to Pestilence
Why can’t the government highlight changes to their guidance documents?
Why are most Scots now in favour of independence?
Opinion polls show a majority of Scots saying they would vote ‘yes’ for Scottish independence in a second referendum: Graham Stewart discusses with Kevin Hague
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
Who regulates the regulators?
No case has been made for giving the Electoral Commission more power
Boris’s failures over COVID and Black Lives Matter
What is needed but is sorely lacking is the smack of firm government, says Nigel Jones
Is Boris Johnson the wrong man?
And do we still have a national story? With Simon Heffer and Jeremy Black
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?
Toby Young questions whether the drastic measures put in place now will harm us more in the future
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
