Issue: March 2023
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Taking flight
Why planes make such a great setting for films
The great Wren
Marking the 100th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death
Hipsters: eco-friendly heirs to William Morris
Middle class millennials in search of the good life
Treasure-houses of the nation
Britain needs to decide on the future of our great churches — and what we want them to be
Bart’s at 900
The world’s oldest hospital celebrates its nonacentennial
Double rapists can be ladies too
Only a bigot would deny Isla’s lived experience
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
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
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”
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
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