Issue: July 2024
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
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
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet