Issue: February 2025
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Understanding the inbetweeners
Helping your teenagers escape the doom loop
Sara Wheeler on art was a winner
By telling her own story, Wheeler caught the ear of thousands like her
The art of the deal
Pondering the future of big auction houses
The price of virtue signalling
Pandering to the liberal social agenda is a drain on Britain’s productivity
A game plan
Getting into the venison supply business
More than just a figurehead
A new plan aims to strip the Archbishop of Canterbury of any real power or authority
How we devalue the Book
Literary culture is under threat from quarters meant to celebrate and promote it
WEIRD but really not that wonderful
The success of the West has been seized upon by the rationalist right but is riddled with gaps and discrepancies
Call of The Leopard
A wine inspired by a classic Sicilian novel, savoured very, very slowly
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
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships