Issue: April 2025
Green claims
An envelope more hectoring than election propaganda
Kill the football bill
Starmer hasn’t grasped that over-regulation is inimical to economic growth
Bring back the song-and-dance men
The brilliance of an overlooked generation of 18th century English music makers
Was this Chinese painter mad?
His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists
A last act of love
There’s a reassurance in new shoots and the proof that life goes on
George Ciancimino
More than a survivor of the “sixties”
Game of the name
The naming of horses can be wonderfully inventive
Booker candidates … and also-rans
The measure of a novel is not its ideas but how it animates those ideas
The real king of Leicester
What could such a storied player want with a middling Midlands club?
Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs
The tight-knit clan structure of many in the Pakistani community lies at the root of the sex abuse scandal
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
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life