Issue: February 2023
We’ll always have Davos
It’s been failing every year since it began but we do need it — or something like it
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
Deconstructing decolonisation
At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate
Who will look after the kids?
Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
Max Beckmann in Munich
A harried artist between the classical and the modern
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
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
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism