Issue: April 2021
Homage to Andalucía
Inspired by Withnail and I, Christopher Pincher delves into fine sherry
Cracking good meals
Explore the splendid panoply of egg recipes for an Easter, feast, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Mystery of the lost Rembrandt
Michael Prodger tracks the story of a lost masterpiece
Not Justin time
Sarah Ditum says that the focus on Timberlake as a bad agent conveniently forgets the machine behind him
Thanks for not sharing
Lisa Hilton says tapas are over-hyped, over-priced and have overstayed their welcome
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
You can’t make it up
Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
Losing the plot
Robert Thicknesse reveals how in searching for meaning, opera adaptations are becoming more obscure
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
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
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
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
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny