Issue: December/January 2025
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
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
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority