Issue: June 2024
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
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
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place