Lockdown
Harrumphing and hot air
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s polemic against coronavirus lockdowns is “a stale little bonbon”
Churches say Welsh lockdown is unlawful
Christians leaders have launched a judicial review against the Welsh Assembly
Why we’re fighting the Welsh lockdown
The life which we must preserve is not just that of the body, but of the soul also
All that glitters is not gold
Why the “Decade of Health” campaign has left the UK feeling cold
The Nine Billion Names of Boris
Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
Trump is losing. Last night’s ugly debate won’t change that
The president’s theatrics won’t persuade the voters he needs
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Africa?
BLM have few words for the continent with the largest number of vulnerable black lives
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
Was Parliament more rebellious in the eighteenth century?
The latest podcast in the Black’s History Week series: How does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member?
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Why can’t California control predictable fires?
California’s rulers again shift the blame to conservatives rather than admit their own incompetence
Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
A fistful of Gandhis
The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh