Issue: January 2020
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Triumph of the trans lobbyists
Julie Bindel on how transgender ideologists are winning the battle for media hearts and minds
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Judging the judges
The way forward is clear: we need another Constitutional Reform Act, writes Joshua Rozenberg
The true value of trophy hunting
When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough
Happy New Year, bigots
Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
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
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them