Lockdown
You better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I’m telling you why
Festive nuts and spice
Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
A spoonful of Brexit helps the medicine go down
No one left to Boris to
What would be different if Starmer was in charge?
Keir Starmer’s weakness is a lack of healthy scepticism for the wisdom of experts
The Golden Age of London (1980-2020?)
Is London on the verge of another phase of urban decline?
Crunching the numbers
If Labour had voted against restrictions, could the Covid rebels have won?
Full list of Coronavirus rebels
Tory Rebels number 59 but Boris still gets his Tiers
Carving out a new genre
Digital theatre is now beginning to offer stalls-starved audiences the kind of quality work they would have queued to see live
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
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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
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement