Issue: February 2022
UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs
Our lives have been in the hands of these glorified numerologists for too long
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
The Unnatural Herstory Museum
There is no real reason for museums to segregate what was hers and his
Grim up north
Two new Nordic dramas reveal a darker side to Scandi paradise
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
Dilyn the dog levels up
Bozzo is trying to fix the country
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
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
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low