Issue: December-January 2026
Realism versus Restraint
Washington’s foreign policy arises from two impulses often in conflict with each other
Ciao to la Scala of football
A cricket club founded by an expatriate lacemaker evolved into one of the wealthiest football sides in the world
Time to change the programme
The failed doctrine of liberal multiculturalism has dominated British political discourse for too long
The great divide
The party divide gave voice to incompatibly different visions of national destiny
The trans craze aftermath
What happens to those caught up in the social contagion, once it has passed?
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
The danger of civil service overreach
How can working within the law be in breach of the Civil Service Code?
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
Alice Roberts distorts her material by an excessive and indiscriminately applied hermeneutic of suspicion
The myth of the NHS
The longer the avoidance, the more painful the reformation
Sheer murder? It must be Christmas
Just as Ana de Armas was the heart of the first Knives Out, Josh O’Connor is this one’s
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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
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time