Issue: June 2021
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
June 2021: Letters to the Editor
Seasonal agricultural work is much more skilled and difficult than many realise
Trophy cabinets
Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture
The unexpected Brexit bonus
Britain’s vaccination success has saved lives and will boost economic output by billions
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Hive minds
Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees
Putting women last
Anti-carceral activists want to shut prisons, but ignore sexual offenders
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Preaching to the choir
The Church will soon hit a Hartlepool moment, when people who feel politically unwelcome go elsewhere
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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world