Issue: February 2022
Monster Munch
It’s time to embrace a Galician classic
Inhale some joy
Planting for scent is a recipe for curing winter blues
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
The leftist who saved Britain
Both Blair and Biden ceded power to left wing rivals; only one was a success…
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
Smoking hot beefcake
Lisa Hilton enjoys a surpisingly good dinner while ogling the snowboard instructors in Andorra
Urban skirmish
The new Chelsea Barracks is striking for its forgetfulness
Château South Downs
A hint of Roman history is nestled in the Surrey Hills
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
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
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive