Issue: March 2023
Human nature
We must understand our vices as well as our virtues
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
Follow the ball
The British needs to embrace football
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
From stream to torrent
Is the existing football broadcasting model fit for purpose?
The man who tamed the Russian bear
Statesmen confronted a stupefying cacophony of crises in the 1980s
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
Who watches the Wikipedia editors?
The curious case of a carefully-tended article about a controversial academic
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
The myth of Winston’s legacy
The European Court of Human Rights was never a Conservative project
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 show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)