Issue: July 2022
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
More town, less gown
The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
Ladies don’t lunch
Dining in style at a quirky and captivating roadside osteria in Italy’s Balkan borderlands
A prayer for the Holocaust dead
Extra-judicial killing and its long aftermath forms the core of Linda Kinstler’s remarkable new book
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Deporting Prince Charles
Dilyn and Boris run into Nadine in the park, who has a some bold new ideas
Independence: a two-way street
Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions
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’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards