Issue: June 2020
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
The flaws of liberalism
On a range of issues liberal politicians pursued policies opposed by voters
Invitation to a joyless party
Lisa Hilton reviews Very Important People, by Ashley Mears
The problem with Adam, Eve and Steve
Is Polyamory really a progressive, feminist-friendly modus vivendi?
Learning to love on Twitter
Our online behaviour is, if the last two months are anything to go by, depressing
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
Stinger stung
A professional gambler who sued for £7.7 million has unwittingly led the Supreme Court to redefine honesty
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
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
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?