Issue: February 2022
Bring home the bacon
The humble bacon sandwich is the only possible choice for breakfast
Drawing the line on hatred
Do proposed new hate crime laws balance free speech with protecting minorities?
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
How to disagree well
Reasoned debate is very difficult if you refuse to engage in good faith
Touchy-feely and not that new really
We’re more than our emotions
For decency’s sake, let’s quit Strasbourg
The European Convention of Human Rights is now misinterpreted, misapplied and debases the currency of humanism
Mike Lear: Lubricious lensman
If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness
Mystery of the missing bronze
A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned
February: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens resents being called a “High Tory”
Much more than just a cunning linguist
Patricia Highsmith’s voluminous diaries paint a full picture of their author
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
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem