Issue: July 2024
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Weaponising weasel words
Gender theory is built on shallow euphemisms
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
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 does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications