Issue: April 2020
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
Poison Ivy League
Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
Water wolf
Patrick Galbraith on the promise -and the pain-of a pike that got away
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Losing my head over Catherine
How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation