Lockdown
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Passport to Pestilence
Why can’t the government highlight changes to their guidance documents?
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
This is what we amputated a limb for
A long-term historical perspective on Covid-19
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Why the English should support Scottish independence
The irrational tendencies of human beings involves a confusion between sovereignty, property and identity
Scullionbait
Chronicling the inroads of cultural Marxists, the woke, the right-on, and all the virtue signalling rest
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Texas Spring Break in a time of Coronavirus
There’s nothing like the outbreak of a global pandemic to put a dampener on everyone’s plans
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us