Issue: July 2024
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
In praise of Spanish practices
What Compostela can teach the City
Confidently Cantonese
Chowing down in the Royal China
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
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?