Issue: July/August 2020
July/August 2020: Letters to the Editor
The opportunity deaccessioning creates for activism
Scotched salmon
Patrick Galbraith on wild food and ethical blindspots
Health and safety
Nick Cohen says streets must be safe for active lifestyles to flourish
A thorny problem
Hephzibah Anderson battles bristly oxtongue
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Ye new inne
Fiona Duncan looks forward to post-Covid hospitality
Short-changed by society
Small people like me face life-long discrimination – and now size has been “medicalised” for profit by drugs companies
Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
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
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow