Issue: February 2024
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
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
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China