Issue: June 2023
Labelled with love
A treasure trove that records a wine-lover’s life
Rock chick chic
Sexy glam is back on top of the charts
Declining figures
British museums and galleries have yet to recover from Covid.
Going large
The trauma of body-fat scales
Unflinching view of a fall from grace
If Carrère can be so honest, there is hope for lesser sinners
The tribe that time forgot
In the heart of the Amazon basin the Korubo people live in almost total isolation
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
Ashes to ashes
Cricket memories to be treasured
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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
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border