Issue: July 2024
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Heaven scent
Harrods is no help in the quest for Raffouche
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Seasonal style
Picking the right outfit for summer socials
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy