Lockdown
Mindfulness won’t get you through the lockdown
Brits needs to rediscover their stiff upper lip
Paris on lockdown: ‘Eccentric’ running and a chastened president
Macron admits mistakes as quarantine continues in France
Part Five: Home Education? Help!
Make a mess and get creative!
Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Helpful advice for the police
Enforce actual laws, don’t bumptiously police the ones you’d like
Why Lord Sumption is wrong about the coronavirus shutdown
Joshua Rozenberg says lockdown measures are a price worth paying
Solo Lockdown
Why social isolation hits singletons the hardest
Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?
Toby Young questions whether the drastic measures put in place now will harm us more in the future
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
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then