Issue: August/September 2021
The magic of the games
The Olympics have a weird and wonderful history
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
The revolution might not be televised
Brexit has been blamed for the decline of the British press, but the mainstream media was broken long before we left the European Union
Memorials to the fallen of Covid
An act of quasi-guerrilla commemoration
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
Thirty years on: blood and hatred in the Balkans
Adam LeBor recalls terror and surreal moments of calm in Eastern Europe
Doing Burlington dirty
The Government’s is hounding distinguished societies from their prestigious premises
Schoolboy error
The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness
Big Mac and fries matter
Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka