Policy
Debating the Covid-19 Lockdown
Toby Young and Kapil Komireddi on this week’s podcast debating the costs of the Covid-19 Lockdown
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style