Issue: December/January 2023
How the Bank broke the Government
By letting a rickety asset class grow like topsy, the Bank of England created the crisis blamed on the mini-budget
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
December/January: Letters to the Editor
Carry on, pomp and circumstance and cultural Marxism
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
Nova’s diary
Nova has image issues and Rishi books himself a grooming session
The trans shaming of a rape survivor
The shocking case of an assault victim denied life-saving surgery because she asked for single-sex facilities
The big lie: The inside story of the BBC’s Bashir cover-up
How the Corporation betrayed its founding principles to protect senior executives
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Elon Musk: worse than Hitler
In which Titania tries to keep things in perspective
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
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
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers