The madness of the lockdown trials
I think we can now admit that Covid sent us all a little loopy. Matt Hancock certainly seems it, handing…
The beast is back
For the first time since the Ice Age, wild bison are roaming Britain
The paradox of Alan Watts
There’s an advert for cruise holidays on television at the moment. It’s all dolphins and dining halls and laughing women…
Tabletop games
Warhammer is a tabletop battle game. Players build and paint little models of aliens, tanks and killer robots and then…
Boris 2029!
OK, it might sound a little fanciful, but hear me out. I think there could just be a way for Boris…
Are the Abraham Accords working?
Two years ago, UAE citizens were barred from entering Israel. No longer. The inaugural Emirates flight touched down in Tel…
Zelensky’s peculiar Glastonbury appearance
Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t quite make it onto the Glastonbury line-up posters. Perhaps Michael Eavis, the owner of ever-so Worthy Farm,…
Is Britain heading into a wage-price spiral?
Are wages about to spiral out of control? Boris Johnson certainly thinks there’s a risk. Last week he warned that…
What’s the alternative to the Rwanda plan?
Last night, a Boeing 767 that was supposed to fly 130 asylum seekers to Rwanda returned to Spain without a…
Last supper
The death of the dinner party
Vital organs
Real men eat raw offal
Don’t make war in Ukraine about Putin’s mental health
There was a time when supposedly serious commentators on world affairs used to at least feign historical knowledge. They might…
Daffodils
Spring is the season of supermarket daffodils. At a pound a bunch, you can deck out your home like Elton…
How much trouble is Boris Johnson in?
Just how bad is it for Boris Johnson? In some ways it’s difficult to tell, this is a prime minister…
It’s Harry, not Meghan, who’s the real problem
Who or what drove Harry and Meghan to leave the royal bosom for the land of slebs on the other…
Liverpool explosion: what we know so far
Britain has been subjected to another suspected terror attack, just as the nation fell silent for the annual Remembrance Sunday…
The borrowers
Are banking apps luring under-thirties into debt?
Sensory deprivation tanks
Hidden below St George’s Wharf in Vauxhall, down the road from a now defunct gay sauna, is Floatworks, a wellness…
Travel quarantine scrapped for double-jabbed
International travel rules will be relaxed on 19 June as part of the wider scrapping of social distancing rules and masks.…
The Watts Memorial
Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole died last weekend saving a woman’s life. Hearing her cries as she fell into the Thames from London…
MPs question Johnson’s plan for Global Britain
Boris Johnson still has a journalist’s ear for snappy phrases — levelling up, an oven-ready Brexit, Global Britain. The PM…
Inside the Tory party’s China split
Back in 2005, Boris Johnson wrote that among geopolitical gloomsters, China was becoming the ‘fashionable new dread’. They were obsessed…
China hawks suffer a setback
The House of Commons was due to vote on the so-called ‘genocide amendment’ to the Trade Bill later today. The proposal…
Bog bodies
Some believe that All Hallows’ Eve is adopted from a much older Celtic holiday, Samhain, that marked the change from…
Boris brings in new restrictions
Boris Johnson has announced sweeping new Covid restrictions, imposing a curfew on pubs and restaurants and telling office workers to…
