Issue: December/January 2023
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
A mission to explain
Businesses must be more transparent if they are to win the trust of a sceptical public
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
A magisterial study of war and strategy
Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust
After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
The feud that felled the Roman Republic
The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered
New tunes from a hatful of old songs
We approach Dylan’s both peerless and wildly uneven catalogue only through the after-image of his dazzling prime
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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
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain