Issue: June 2022
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Our golden age
Today’s jockeys are the best ever
Doing time
British prison sentences must be taken with a generous pinch of salt
Love’s labourers lost
Romeo finds himself overcome by a sense of utter hopelessness
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
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand