Issue: February 2022
Storied Success
& Other Stories is the new high street Destination of Choice
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Ferreting baht’at
There are few rabbits to be found on Ilkley Moor
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
Go west, young man
Terry Gilliam holds court in exile
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The EV delusion
Huge economic and infrastructure challenges must be overcome if electric vehicles are to become anything more than toys for middle class drivers
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
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic