Social Distancing
The man who took the wrong flat white
We urgently need new rules for modern social etiquette
Why MPs can no longer vote by click
Voting through the lobbies is an inconvenience worth preserving
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Touch of dystopia
Are we facing a Ballardian dystopian future of waning human touch?
Why Lord Sumption is wrong about the coronavirus shutdown
Joshua Rozenberg says lockdown measures are a price worth paying
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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
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original