Lockdown
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
The medical community’s revolt against lockdown
For a government which insists it is “following the science,” there is a striking reluctance to listen to the scientists
Why aren’t dogs social distancing?
Dogs spread risk, and owners spread dogs
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
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority