Issue: August/September 2022
Our revels are now ended
The unavoidable tide of demographics and globalisation will bring an end to the long economic boom
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
Studio: The English baroque architecture of New York
Climbing around, looking up, and zooming in: the delights of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Charley Coutts: celebrity interviewer
From Nick Cage to De Niro
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
Confusing populism with tyranny
Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
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
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets