Lockdown
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
An epidemic of misguided moralising
The difference between vaccine sceptics and advocates is not as great as it appears
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Boris in a bind
It is time for Tory MPs to do the only honourable thing
The stupidity of lockdown revealed society’s nihilism
Why were we content to ruin the lives of so many?
Sauce for the goose
Condemn Downing Street not for wanting fun, but for ignoring others’ sacrifices
The mask of authority
All of us need to answer hard questions about the decisions we made during the pandemic
Pandemic panic on the River Plate
Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo
We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more
Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel
Hard Labour for Boris
Have cake, get others to eat cake, still have to pay for cake
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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
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration