Issue: February 2022
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
The censor returns
New Lord Chamberlains are policing the stage with puritan zeal
Slang vs Woke: the final judgment
Everyone wants what should be. But there is no “should be”. There is only what is.
The limits of logic
We are at a crucial moment in the history of artificial intelligence
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Going the full Munch
A traumatising letter from St Paul’s arrives
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
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.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact