Lockdown
The Ides of Boris
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
What did YOU do in the Great Culture War, Daddy?
The British public will not stay forever silent as their values and beliefs are attacked
In which Sir Keir eats Mr Johnson’s cake
Starmer’s first order is last orders for pubs
Tory Lockdown rebels reach 42
Scores of Tories have defied the Government’s instruction to vote for lockdown measures
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
Confessions of a bar owner
The Government’s 10pm curfew runs the risk of decimating small, family-run establishments
Face masks diminish the romance of everyday life
Smiling – one of the primary expressions of our common humanity – has been rendered invisible by the ubiquity of face masks
What’s the point of Tory Party Conference?
Corporate and expensive, has Tory Party Conference had its day?
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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
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
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Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters