Issue: July 2023
Can Sunak turn the polls around?
It might be prudent for the Conservatives to plan for defeat but it is difficult to do
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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
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth