Issue: February 2025
Is it a no-go for NATO?
American conservatives are more worried about domestic concerns
Give all the islands back
Long live Sir Keir, Defender of the Brave New Left and Scourge of All Gammons
Rolling the dice
If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?
The FA’s passion-killer
FA rules this season protect poor over-stretched bigger clubs with huge squads and budgets
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
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation