Issue: April 2021
Reclaiming the altar of wokery
Laurence Fox has better credentials for engaging with the woke generation than the average Tory MP
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
How to scotch independence
Can and should the Supreme Court decide the UK border?
The trans rights that trump all
Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman say women’s rights were not considered in legislation that allows trans people to effectively decide their own gender
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Post-colonial bad jokes
The whole history of the West is — to confound the simplicities of the woke — one gigantic act of “cultural appropriation”
Privilege
Privilege comes from the Latin privilegium, a bill or law giving advantage to a private individual
Elusive quest for impartiality
I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy
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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it