Issue: August/September 2021
Hot air
Climate change targets are rising at a dangerous rate
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
Breaking the doom loop
If we don’t return to normal now, when can we?
Breaking the Knee
The story of a man who once held his hand to the Olympic fire
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
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie