Issue: June 2021
China: Cold war or hot peace?
The culture clash between East and West is complicated by interdependence
China: The rules of engagement
How should America deal with a newly aggressive and expansionist Beijing?
The masses might stone you
My time as the first foreign broadcaster accredited to Mao’s China
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club
A Clockwork Jihadi
Usman Khan’s failed de-radicalisation bears parallels with A Clockwork Orange
Outcast of the angry generation
Mahler’s political journey from Baader-Meinhof terrorist to Holocaust denier illustrates Germany’s post-Hitler psychodrama
Studio: Liam O’Connor’s British Normandy Memorial
A dignified classical design respects its setting and the memory of wartime sacrifice
Walled in against the modern world
Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying
Sincerely ducking the hard questions
Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life
Rotters, rogues and Champagne moments
This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull
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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
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution