Issue: June 2023
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
Not justice, by a long stretch
Thousands of petty criminals face life in jail because of a failed sentencing policy
Justice is not racist
Concerns about political correctness are preventing too many MPs from properly addressing the scandal of sex-grooming gangs
Home from Hiroshima
Rishi discovers the way of the Samurai and James goes on a job hunt
Doctor doesn’t know best
Non-binary blarney in Killarney
Anglo-Saxon extremists
The strange logic of the activists who insist the term “Anglo-Saxon” is racist
The people’s vote
The integrity of the democratic process has been fatally undermined by machine politics and diversity quotas
Letters for June
Self-defeating Unionists, abused animals, suffering centrists and overlooked antipodeans
Why the death penalty can be progressive
Anyone who disagrees with me ought to be publicly executed
How Britain turned its back on its young
Soaring rents, punitive tax, and the cost of living crisis risks making the country into a version of the dystopian novel The Children of Men
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
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening