Issue: June 2021
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?
China wolf bait
Chinese propaganda plays on the manifest faultlines of American society
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears
Fighting back against the censors
Dan Hitchens reports on the groups who are taking the battle for free speech forward by speaking truth to power
No babies, no more Nazis
If we introduce selective breeding to weed out the problematic, there would be no more Nazis
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
Burned by political expedience
Clandon Park remains a shell after it was gutted by fire six years ago. Now the National Trust is telling a one-sided story about its past
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification
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
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand