Lockdown
The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline
“My experience is no one but the government and mainstream media are sharing apocalyptic Covid-19 death experiences with me”
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Lockdown II: this time it’s politically painful
What are the numbers inside the parliamentary Tory party?
All of this has happened before
Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go
Twitter suspends lockdown challenger
Twitter suspended man challenging the Government on lockdown for “spreading potentially harmful information”
Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Welcome to Covidworld
Ian James Kidd and Matthew Ratcliffe assess our new altered reality, where accepted norms do not apply
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
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
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement