Issue: August/September 2023
NIMBYs are the real revolutionaries
Think tank-driven Street Votes policy risks trampling on middle-class dreams by bringing high-density housing to peaceful neighbourhoods
In praise of newspeak
Inclusive new terms really stick it to the menstruators
The God of war
The rise of religiosity and mysticism among those fighting on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine
Blessed are the poor? Really?
Why won’t the wealthy C of E help impoverished parishes?
Stocking the trophy cabinet
Britain’s rich store of status symbols is a key driver of foreign investment
AI: is the end nigh?
Evaluating the threat to mankind from artifical intelligence
Hubris of a scientific giant
The disgrace of Didier Raoult, the scientific giant who touted a worthless Covid “cure”
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
A forgotten British great: Smelfungus
Now languishing in undeserved obscurity, Tobias Smollett should be remembered
Kill or be killed: the charming cut-throats of the wild frontier
Visiting the site of a long-forgotten siege in the Hindu Kush
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
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice