Issue: April 2023
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Playing the long game
James Anderson: the grandfather figure in the England dressing room
Forgettable history of forgotten music
These four composers deserve to be remembered without exaggeration in service of social revanchism
The haves and the have-yachts
How can we ensure our beleaguered CEOs receive the rewards they richly deserve?
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
Letters for April
Wikipedia fibs, Swiftian corrections, and non-plussed 11 year olds
England’s polymath of the piano
Greatness does not always declare itself in torrents of Slavic emotion or Germanic intellectualism
Ins and outs of Europe
Do Premier League clubs join in something their own fans hate?
Lifting the mask of a mercurial master
Soden shares the spoils of untrammelled access: vivid evidence of the man not seen
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
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work