Issue: March 2020
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Reading for the bar
Courtroom memoirs reveal fascinating details of high-profile cases, waspish views of politicians, as well as a QC who solved a notorious murder
The real rogue state
Wherever the outrage is about the success of Sinn Fein, there hasn’t been a word from Brussels
Ageing Europe faces demographic suicide
As their birth rate plunges, EU countries are failing to confront reality
The problem of the poor…
Titania McGrath’s considers the working class
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
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 regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent