Government
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
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
