Forget Nish Kumar. Non-woke artists are the real casualties of our culture war.
I got one message from a Brexiteer artist telling me “it would be career suicide for me to be public about my opinions”.
Francis Ingham: It simply won’t do that Cameron wasn’t covered by lobbying rules that he himself introduced
The patent absurdity of a Lobbying Act which excludes the majority of lobbyists means that it simply will not last.
We interrupt our usual morning editorial to make a public service announcement
The risk of dying as a consequence of having received the AstraZeneca anti-Covid vaccine is minimal.
Stephen Booth: Merkel’s departure is Macron’s opportunity – an opening for his dreams of an even closer Union
And if Germany’s Greens are in government after the federal election, they will be inclined to help him.
Robert Ede and Sean Phillips: The Government faces an election run-up monopolised by reports of NHS waiting times and delays
The third in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.
The negative capability of Alan Duncan
Enoch Powell said writing memoirs would be “like a dog returning to its own vomit”. To be a diarist, you must believe that your vomit is worth returning to.
How disgusting Cameron’s critics are. He is a decent man – as were Baldwin and Blair.
All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
Emily Carver: Some believe that as a white person, I shouldn’t express a view on Black Lives Matter. But I should and will.
There is a vocal minority of people who dominate discussions in the media, and seem determined to import the racially-charged culture we see in the US.
Robert Halfon: 30 years ago, Major defied foreign policy orthodoxies, saved thousands of Kurdish lives – and set us an example
Britons can be very proud that he quickly answered the calls of the Kurds at the moment of their righteous rebellion and intense suffering.
Chris Thomas: The Government needs a plan to substantiate its ambitious rhetoric on health reforms
The second in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.
What is the question to which vaccine passports are the answer?
The more you ponder the Commons arithmetic, the more you see why mass testing is likely to happen and why a state-run vaccine passport scheme is not.
Andrew Haldenby: To clear the post-pandemic backlog, the NHS will need not yet more spending, but improved productivity
The first in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.
Anthony Browne: In the wake of Brexit, Britain goes green while the EU greenwashes
If it wishes to deliver its “man on the moon moment”, it should exclude gas from its final green taxonomy.
Scottish Conservative supporters should not vote for ‘All for Unity’
The best George Galloway’s party can hope to achieve is taking seats from other unionists. They’re more likely to hand them to separatists.
Neil O’Brien: I can laugh off China sanctioning me, but we can’t shrug off the threat it poses
The UK and governments across the west have started to act. But we’re still just starting to figure out how to respond.