Issue: March 2020
Obama’s airbrushed dreams
Original typscript reveals an insecure man racked by self-doubt
God’s comeback
The Church of England has found God again
Amuse Bouche
Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush
Lobsters for Lent
Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
Velvet Revolution
Exploring Czech wine in Prague
Fairs and fair dealing
Thomas Woodham-Smith listens with caution
Hello sailor suit
Hannah Betts buccaneers into spring in nautical style
The horror! The horror!
Claudia Savage-Gore dreads the double hell of two PTA events
Repeatable offers
For a limited time only?
King Ratter
Patrick Galbraith hunts with a terrier brought back from the brink
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
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?