Issue: August/September 2023
Our true European home
With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity
Agony and ecstasy
The simultaneous glory and tragedy of sport
What book blurbs really mean
Publishing professionals often speak in code, but our man on the inside is a cryptographer
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
In a world without God, what does suicide mean?
When society no longer sees the taking of one’s own life as a sin, it is unclear who should be responsible for attempting to prevent such deaths
Sack the stewards
Racing should adopt football’s VAR
Why central Europe has always mattered
Globalism is nothing new
Aryan idol
On the surprising legacy of an iconic eleventh century sculpture.
How to survive Twitter
Shame, anonymity and never saying sorry
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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give