Mask Mandates
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
