Issue: January 2020
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
In defence of the US nation
Richard Reinsch reviews The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Closet hippy of the SAS
Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
Right-on cue
As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
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
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not