Issue: March 2021
Resurrect Reagan
In the wake of Trump, US conservatives must regain the moral high ground
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
Uncool country
Country music has a frontline place in the culture wars, says Sarah Ditum
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
The idealisation of everyday life
Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?
Shock of the new
People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
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
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub