Issue: March 2023
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
A fright in the Dolomites
It’s a bit much to go to dinner at a luxury ski resort and find oneself inadvertently appearing in Fawlty Towers with zombies
Easter angst
Holiday horror looms on the horizon
See it, say it, sorted
The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie
Beret much so
If you want to get ahead, get a Basque hat
Chaos captivates
The newest season of Fauda is the most complex and thus the most satisfying so far
Radio 2 is now beyond my Ken
What used to work, and what listeners enjoyed, is no longer the most important consideration for the decision-makers in Radio
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
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
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas