Issue: April 2020
The Marbles won’t be lost
Is this the end of the Elgin Marbles debate?
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
A tale of two Harrys
Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
Why vaccines are deeply racist
Already, the virus has been renamed “Covid-19” in a flagrant attempt at dehumanisation
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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
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven