Issue: January/February 2021
Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
Mystery of the clicking keyboard
Out of the Ether is an excellent primer on Ethereum, but the general reader might find the minutiae a bit much
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Biden’s brave new world
As we move into 2021, Biden’s message resounds throughout our new woke empire
Learning from the past
Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense
Carry on spending
Even the venerable and conservative Louvre is exploring various fundraising novelties, says Michael Prodger
Plague and pestilence
Covid-19 has reawakened the medieval superstition that bad things happen to bad people
J’accuse: the legal system in the dock
As a pupil, Alexandra Wilson frequently encountered racially loaded assumptions. In court, clients assumed she was a defendant
Out with the Old Masters?
Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?
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
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
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,
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears