Mark Harper
The Ensueing
Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Have Conservative MPs been taken to the limit of their endurance?
The Covid Recovery Group continues to gather momentum – and the prime minister knows it
The strategy behind the Covid Recovery Group
MPs fighting the lockdown are sharpening their swords for an almighty battle with No.10
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
