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.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


