Issue: March 2024
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
