Plague
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
A heavenly perspective
Thoughts on the plague with St Pauls’ greatest dean, John Donne
Return of the Dance of Death
Coronavirus may be sweeping the world but we’ve been here before
A plague of words
Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation