Parents across England rejoiced as schools reopened this week. While Sam Leith and his wife did their best to home-school their offspring, in Unherd, Leith acknowledges a real sadness born of knowing that it was anything but ideal and that the government-caused pandemic disruption will affect his children for many years.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


