Issue: July/August 2020
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Britain’s little Hitlers
Richard Griffiths reviews Failed Führers, by Graham Macklin
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
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country