Issue: June 2023
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
No mains in Spain
Enjoying “small-plate dining” at London’s original tapas bar
Better in than out
How to have a really regal picnic
Gunning for shooting
Why field sports are so misunderstood
When in full fig, carry a Brigg
What could be more English?
Show and tell
Racing must win over the public, not protestors
Jeu, set et match
France’s tennis troubles
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
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
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