SAGE
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
UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs
Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long
Sir Graham Brady – “A lot of people are near the end of their tether”
1922 Chairman warns that Tory MPs may vote for a November lockdown, but not a December renewal
Ignoring the Covid evidence
Far from following the science, the government turned its back on all available data
Would the UK have half the Covid deaths if Boris had “followed the science”?
“Professor Lockdown” argued against the one measure that really might have helped
The people’s pantomime
Did we spend months in misery because we couldn’t handle the truth?
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Blazing a trail
Put your neck on the line with these winter picks
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
