Features
Stavropol, South Russia: In Search of Gorbachev’s Roots
The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land
Putting the Boot in…
David Cameron kept a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s peerless satire on his desk, but Boris Johnson’s eventful career is entirely in the Scoop mould
The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitards
The secrets and lies of the Castro-loving 1960s revolutionaries who became part of the French establishment
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Goodbye to the Blonds
The generation of idiosyncratic proprietors who changed the face of the British book industry
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
When is a rape not a rape?
The “sex by deception” law must stay to protect women from trans predators
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
