Issue: April 2024
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
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
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets