Issue: December/January 2022
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
The myth of the Victorian Christmas
Our values today are of consumerism and instant gratification, inherited from our Victorian forebears
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
The greatest cancellation
Warriors against cancel culture have been loudest in calling for a republic
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Festive frostiness
Claudia Savage Gore feels a chill around the kitchen island
Matters of fact in a post-truth world
The message of The Constitution of Knowledge is one of hope, as Rauch urges those who resent the censors to “unmute” themselves
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
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.