NHS
The NHS is the new Church — Militant and Triumphant
The clinical decisions rushed through in March had a single goal: to protect the reputation of the NHS
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
The Misdirection of the Fat Police
Focusing on obesity distracts from the real reasons we’ve had such high death rates
Unfinest Hour
Our character has been all too gruesomely on display in our response to the pandemic
Empire of conformists
The NHS is immune to criticism because its deficiencies are seen as departures from its essential goodness
Capitalism 1, Big Government 0
South Korea did testing as we have done food — giving the market its head
Healing power of outdoors
Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up
Nationalist Health Service
Why does the Government say ‘your NHS’ rather than ‘your country’?
Autism and the cost of care
For all US healthcare’s faults, it outperforms the NHS on autism provision
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
