Lockdown
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
In the tomorrow we spent like there was not
The magic money tree is dead, long live the magic money tree
Charter for Oxbridge cheats
Since digitising all interviews, both universities are rife with reports of abuses
In defence of the Ingram-Moores
Don’t blame them; blame yourself
Freedom Day remembered
How the doomsayers got it wrong
The failure of central planning
It didn’t work in the late 1940s or the early 2020s
Passion of the shyster
Boris thinks he is the victim — but he might be the only one
The people sing
The Chinese have had enough of lockdowns
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
COVID truth and reconciliation
We must learn the lessons of our pandemic response
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault