UK Politics
10 reasons why a second lockdown is a terrible idea
The Government did not have a good reason when the first lockdown was imposed and it doesn’t have a good reason today
The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline
“My experience is no one but the government and mainstream media are sharing apocalyptic Covid-19 death experiences with me”
All of this has happened before
Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go
The end of the old school tie
Private education is under threat from Oxbridge quotas and soaring fees, to the detriment of bright scholarship pupils
All that glitters is not gold
Why the “Decade of Health” campaign has left the UK feeling cold
The Nine Billion Names of Boris
Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
Is the Women’s Equality Party really for women?
The WEP has been neutered by the same sexist stereotypes it claims to fight against
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
