Issue: February 2020
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
The International Criminal Court is a mess
If the ICC had brought more warlords to justice, it might have earned our respect
Filthy shades of grey
Why do people — and men in particular — dress so vilely now?
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Philosopher par excellence
Beyond the breaking glass of his public interventions, Sir Roger Scruton was a peerless intellectual
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
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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
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer