Issue: August/September 2021
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Out of Africa
To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Gaslighting London
Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes
Bloody vegans
Patrick Galbraith on the complex ethics of butter substitutes