PMQs
No more Mr Nice Guy
Starmer fails to land a blow on a Boris Johnson who is up for a scrap
Boris on the box. Or Boris at the despatch box?
Should lockdown policy be announced in televised addresses or to a near-empty parliament?
Starmer for the Prosecution
At his first PMQs, Labour’s new leader offered a masterclass in constructive opposition
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
The Roman roots of the English church
Perhaps two new church histories have a salutary message for today’s C of E
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
I spread disinformation, and I’m very sorry
In which our brave author is found guilty of trying to be funny online