Issue: August/September 2025
Taking aim
The problem is the way people use machines, not the machines themselves
Durrell dissected
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 by Michael Haag
A show’s warning from the past
Blurring the line between art and activism
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
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act it still being opposed and undermined
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration