Issue: August/September 2023
In the pink
The world’s best-value rosé
Rishi is upset again
The PM’s in a massive sulk – maybe starting a new hedge fund would cheer him up?
Slut-shaming Barbie
Dental woes and devoted dolls
Moscow rules
The machinations of Russian regime are dramatised in a new play.
A tale of two Glastos
With ho-hum bands, faux-eco fans and sky-high prices, Glastonbury Festival has strayed far from its countercultural roots
Big pay rises won’t beat inflation
The poor are best helped through tax and benefits, not boosting the minimum wage
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
Build back greener
We are going to need skilled workers, factories and a resilient and self-sufficient economy
Chatting the chat
AI promises to be a boon for business, but new tech doesn’t magically bring more profits
How Ofcom signed off on Channel 4’s lies
The regulator was complicit in a misleading C4 documentary about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya
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
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening