Lockdown
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Unquestionably Whitty and Vallance
The outlook is grey, no questions
Are socially distanced festivals the future of entertainment?
Appledore book festival has paved the way for Covid-friendly entertainment in the UK
Matt Hancock: Obstinate or Innumerate?
The Health Secretary’s latest statistical blunder shows his wishful thinking
Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the traditions of Jewish festivals
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Psychosis in an age of surveillance capitalism
Can an app help treat mental health issues?
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
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
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan