Issue: January/February 2021
Primary sauces
Lisa Hilton savours a timeless French bistro in Pimlico that displays no timidity with the ladle
Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
See, the conqu’ring hero comes – to be ridiculed by vegans
A Procrustean bed of critical theory is examining a British military hero – with predictable results
It shouldn’t happen to a spad
Ministers have always needed people to carry their bags and to tell them what a wonderful job they are doing
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
Round up the ordinary subjects
A free society cannot remain free if it implements the social justice movement’s bizarre ideology of vilifying ordinary people
Crooked compendium
Ms Lees offers a new take on the template, but she is walking a well-trodden path
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
Queen of Kitsch
Frida Kahlo: Her brand has quickly spread from cult to cliché
The BBC, a class apart
Michael Collins says the corporation is fighting the wrong war, as usual
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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished