Issue: March 2022
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
A bitter brew from darkest Peru
Iain Sinclair on the trail of his Victorian ancestor
Labour of love
Spring is an essential time in wine production
A vivid chronicle of chroniclers
Richard Cohen’s history of histories is a gargantuan achievement
The way of all flesh
Why not give up vegetables for Lent?
On a pedestal?
Give up joyless meat-hating for Lent
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
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
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)