Issue: April 2024
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
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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 Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller