Taylor Swift
Swift reprise
Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health