Issue: April 2021
Wolverhampton wonderer
There is a lesson here for those who prefer to sharpen their knives on the whetstone of grievance
Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
Michel Foucault: the prophet of pederasty
Daniel Johnson says the fact that Foucault scholars now overlook his advocacy for sex with boys shows the great libertine failed to overturn Judaeo-Christian morality
Tragedy of the little Darlings
The relationship between J.M. Barrie and the real life Peter Pan was fatherly, friendly and perhaps something else
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
April 2021: Letters to the Editor
David Starkey missed the Welsh Government’s slave trade project which is littered with errors and relies heavily on Wikipedia
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Rites of spring
The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson
Fantasy of the magic money tree
Central banks will come under increased pressure to “do good” by politicians
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
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration