Issue: April 2023
Skipping the light fantastic
Prepare to be wowed by the food, and fellow diners, at a new restaurant in Notting Hill
The repair shop
A lady who works wonders with leathers
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Inspect your gadgets
Spend on food, not utensils
In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
Live like a laird
Gleneagles fuses Scottish style and U.S. glamour
Tokyo story
An American takes on the Yakuza 84
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
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
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change