Long Read
The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline
“My experience is no one but the government and mainstream media are sharing apocalyptic Covid-19 death experiences with me”
The Long Hours: remembering David Oluwale
How one man’s English journey, begun in hope, turned into a nightmare
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)