Issue: August/September 2024
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
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
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious