Issue: March 2022
Set an example
If the premiership is a monarchy, our kings need better advisers
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
The mask of authority
All of us need to answer hard questions about the decisions we made during the pandemic
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
I shall not cease from re-education
A lesson in compassion, intelligence and humility
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Forbidden fruit
Why do so many refuse to shoot woodcock?
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
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one