Issue: June 2020
Significant others
Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
The key to self-care
Claudia Savage-Gore stays alert and survives by sending the little darlings back to school
Death: a walk in the park
Everyday lies with Theodore Dalrymple
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
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
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
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
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act it still being opposed and undermined
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken