Issue: July 2024
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
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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
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone