Zoom Parliament
Boris on the box. Or Boris at the despatch box?
Should lockdown policy be announced in televised addresses or to a near-empty parliament?
The Zoom Parliament is here – but hopefully not to stay
Remote voting may encourage MPs to be more independent, but politics is necessarily a team sport
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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
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
