Issue: February 2025
Making house calls
The average age of a construction worker in the UK now is 50
The revenge of the Blob
Mercurius Cantabrigiensis laments the bias in the public appointments system
Down the chute
Venting about laundry and low expectations
Getting shirty
Pick the princes of handmade shirts
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
Charter for Oxbridge cheats
Since digitising all interviews, both universities are rife with reports of abuses
Prickly architect of Gothic marvels
Butterfield was a more complex figure than was evident in his great set-piece buildings
World peace and the meaning of life
What equips a podcaster to be a multi-dimensional philosopher king?
Gods and monsters
The chequered history of Europe’s monarchs and dictators
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
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism