Issue: July 2022
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
He’s not the son of God
Cricket fans are the ultimate non-conformists
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
The man tennis failed
Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the Third Reich dissident Wimbledon left behind
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
Error of judgement
How the Supreme Court got an issue of great constitutional importance so wrong
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
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries