Lockdown
Altogether enough enjoyment
Venice after people
Reopening schools: the case against remote education
Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be
Pasteurisation of the pub
Pubs may have reopened, but its new landlord is the Nanny State
The Lockdown Lobotomy
The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could
Life has become the avoidance of death
In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.
Art in Paris under Covid
Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle
The myth of Scotland’s Covid superiority
Scottish Government advisers are using misleading data to promote Scottish exceptionalism
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Passport to Pestilence
Why can’t the government highlight changes to their guidance documents?
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions