Issue: August/September 2022
In search of the lost “Greek” tribe of Alexander the Great
A trek through the Hindu Kush to seek out the ancient Kalash people, who claim descent from Alexander’s army
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Odds-on favourites
Picking a list of horses to remember
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
How the Church blew it on race
A secretive Church of England commission is intent on seeing bigotry everywhere
The new cricket mindset
How England found their mojo
What privilege is really about
Anne Frank faced problems but …
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
The heat is on
We need to rethink our use of water
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
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence