Every business is essential
The powerful and the famous are lining up against everyday people losing their livelihoods
Lockdown
Monday
Friday
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2020
The Spectator’s writers and friends recommend the best books, richest reads and most pandemical page-turners of 2020
Monday
What the books in our Zoom backgrounds really say about us
The background has overtaken the foreground as a measure of who we are
Friday
Mixed grain salad with roasted red peppers: the perfect lockdown lunch
Mixed grains make a great alternative to plain rice
Tuesday
Sorry Cuomo, we’re doing Thanksgiving
Americans have had enough of arbitrary lockdown rules
What is the Great Reset?
It’s not everything it’s cracked up to be
Thursday
COVID, lockdowns and misery
Weren’t we lonely enough before?
The age of the informant
Snitch culture will tear us apart
Wednesday
Homes, sweet homes
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t recall, I acquired a donkey hut in the Molise
Thursday
Killing time in Thailand
By Day 11, I understand why my windows are sealed shut and why I am not allowed knives
Atlas shrugs
The establishment doesn’t think he’s an expert. He disagrees
Monday
The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
‘Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer’
Tuesday
California won’t let a good crisis go to waste
Local bureaucrats are engineering a new abnormal
Thursday
Nancy Pelosi’s bad hair day
The shear hypocrisy!
Monday
A newsletter from the Society for the Elimination of Risk
‘If you must swim, always wear a life vest, face mask and snorkel’
Tuesday
Make America Normal Again
Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did
Monday
On the ground in Manhattan after 9/11
Life in Manhattan, September 2001
Wednesday
Yard envy
Lockdown has cruelly exposed my shortcomings
Wednesday
What we need is social media distancing
Social media brings out the worst in us because the algorithm rewards us for being tribal, divisive and emotional
Friday
Where are the deaths?
The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted
