Issue: April 2021
Minority of one
Baddiel is concerned in this short, polemical book with Jews being “left out”
Finely-turned tales of mothers, murder and love
We need a system where books that publishers really love, where it’s not mere puff, get a special sticker on the front, says John Self
The wrong war?
Jeremy Black says McMeekin’s account provides tough reading for anybody endorsing the Guardian’s view of history
An unrepentant serial killer
The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies
The modernist who wanted to be Führer
Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him
“Community”
Am I really part of the EasyJet community?
Through a glass, darkly
Nick Cohen on the ill-starred but seductive love affair between writers and alcohol
A kind of loving
Lincoln Allison is moved by a cache of his father’s wartime love letters and what they reveal about conflict, his parents’ relationship — and a huge generational chasm
An eye for the world after Trump
Senator Tom Cotton ticks all the Republican White House boxes – provided the last incumbent bows out
The New York Times
Bad times at the Grey Lady
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 old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children