Issue: June 2021
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Scapegoat of a paranoid era
Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
Odes to joy
Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere
Vaccine for the soul
As Britain is about to declare victory over the virus, Christopher Pincher enjoys a Latour-Bellona
Ivy Leagues ahead
Hannah Betts goes preppy in penny loafers and Ralph Lauren
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
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party