Issue: April 2023
Keeping it in the family
The Succession problems of family-run firms
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
Killer roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
The accidental dog
The dog owners of this country have had enough of experts
Simon Gray: seriously funny artist of angst
An author of seriously funny plays
Selling the jewels
Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver
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
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma