Lockdown
Hard science is Priti difficult
Getting schooled by the facts of life
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19
Is the expat way of life coming to an end?
The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country
The limits of optimism
Like Mr Stimpson in the film Clockwise, Boris Johnson is learning about the perils of fostering hope
Shutting up the unspeakable is still a bad idea
The scientific method remains dissent and criticism, even for Lockdowns
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
Are we trapped in our own version of The Truman Show?
The longer the pandemic and the platitudes go on, the more something doesn’t feel quite right
A Priti pass
The Home Secretary ought to be up to the job
The underlying cause of death
Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths
How Covid paved the Road to Serfdom
Hayek suggested a society which sacrificed liberty for security would gradually submit itself to authoritarian control
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
Lockdown II: this time it’s politically painful
What are the numbers inside the parliamentary Tory party?
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders
For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?
Instagram vs. Brexit reality
It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU
A brief history of Moria
John Psaropoulos travels to Mória Reception and Identification Centre, which was once the largest refugee camp in Europe
Roger Scruton was no atheist – argues his literary executor
On the first anniversary of his death, Scruton’s literary executor says that it is a ‘travesty of the truth’ to think that Scruton joined the ranks of those evangelical atheists
We need to protect the free speech of dissident doctors
The Covid Physician on how we can protect our civil liberties in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive