UK
Prorogation Canadian-style
Canadians have more faith in the democratic process than their British cousins
Reopening schools: the case against remote education
Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be
Paging Uncle Joe
A workable CANZUK might be illiberal and unAmerican
Scotland’s brand new blasphemy law
Holyrood’s hate crime proposals are a threat to free speech
Tolerance in America: what the resignations of Katz, Weiss & Sullivan tell us
Two journalists and an academic call for the end of censorship and intolerance
Why are most Scots now in favour of independence?
Opinion polls show a majority of Scots saying they would vote ‘yes’ for Scottish independence in a second referendum: Graham Stewart discusses with Kevin Hague
Who regulates the regulators?
No case has been made for giving the Electoral Commission more power
When did the Cold War actually start?
Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart
Can the West live without China?
Graham Stewart asks Stewart Paterson whether disengagement from China is an act of self-harm or a sensible stitch in time
Leaving Hong Kong – will China’s loss be Britain’s gain?
It’s Hong Kong’s middle class – not the hyper-wealthy – who may leave. But Britain may not be their preferred option.
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
