Tier 3
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
Sweetening the Covid Kool-Aid
Incentivising vaccination calls medical ethics into question
Fifth Column
Goldsmiths University wants to topple the men who saved England
Dutch courage
Christopher Silvester on a war movie with no rousing patriotic music or violence, but nevertheless filled with unexpected delights and discoveries
Breaking the doom loop
If we don’t return to normal now, when can we?
Another Boris and me
Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today
Raging irritants
Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway
Marble Ah.
The new Marble Arch reminds me of that Cristiano Ronaldo statue
Free to make bad decisions
Surrogacy bans set sexist restrictions on women’s bodies
Feminist fallacies: Equality benefits everyone
For feminism to be effective, women and girls need to demand our rights and not rely on men to hand them over
Erasing women
Why make such efforts to avoid using the word “women”?