Issue: February 2023
Seductive croquetas
The spanish version of the dish is the finest, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Dismal plate of the nation
Lisa Hilton finds a disturbing metaphor in the unconvincing dining room of the House of Lords
Wines for romantics
Henry Jeffreys enjoys the heady pleasure of fine marsala
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
The roots of U.S. support for Israel
Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics
The beastly East
The question is whether the heart of Whitechapel can keep its character under the pressures of urban development
The bank that grew fat on cocaine
Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals
Mend your ways
Eschewing the new is oh so au courant
Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
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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
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them