Pandemic
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
There is still no pandemic plan
The Covid inquiry could help improve our response to the next crisis, but is not asking the right questions
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
The keyboard secret army
The paranoid war on “disinformation” at the heart of the Government’s pandemic response
Send in the spivs
War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic
To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
