Issue: August/September 2024
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
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
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer