Issue: December-January 2026
Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along
An installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral has caused an outcry
Keeping in tune with the Times
Radio Times has become the mouthpiece of the BBC’s re-education unit
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
Danish thriller is a real diamond
A House of Dynamite deserves a genre all its own
How to halt the continental drift
Where has “Europe” come from over the past 30 years and where is it heading?
Girls don’t just wanna have fun
“Blue Velvet” is a sinister, savage take on male violence and a feminine urge for vengeance
The frosty frontier
Annexing Canada is merely the latest salvo in America’s long history of hostility towards its northern neighbour
Waste product
Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, Enshittification prolongs its squalid past
Online Screening: the inconvenient truth
Far fewer applicants now find themselves in the cold corridors of medieval quads
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
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
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan