Issue: March 2022
Why are there so few EU Rejoiners?
The case to re-join the EU is today much weaker than the case to remain was during the 2016 referendum
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Dilyn goes to auction
Sometimes a dog has to do what a dog has to do
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Strange happenings back in the USSR
The brilliant story of a Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow
Time is not a healer
Choosing a school in London is now a political decision
Dreaming of la dolce vita in the deep freeze
A cultural renaissance is underway in a region once synonymous with Stalin’s brutal gulags
All right on the night
The enchanted world of nocturnal football
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester