Issue: February 2023
Why the liberal hawks rule the roost
Get ready for the next idiot crusade
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
Back to reality
Objective truth is critically important. It is one of the greatest defences of our liberty
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Secret sex lives in Victorian England
Prepare to fall in like with three new books
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
Can we save rugby?
Will rugby recover from financial and physical injuries?
Upside of the blockchain bust
As crypto madness fades, its prophets will be forced to do more productive work
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
Women should agree to disagree
Feminists should forget about pronouns and labels and tackle the real issues of women’s lives
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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
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised