Issue: August/September 2024
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
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
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution