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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history