Lockdown
This is what we amputated a limb for
A long-term historical perspective on Covid-19
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
The teaching unions are a national disgrace
The teaching unions are not here to promote the value of education
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
