Issue: March 2025
Hurrah for decency!
Rejoice that Hector is out of the woods
How to get ahead in academia
The Russell Group is riddled with EDI rot
Hot tips for cool days
Don’t spend it all just yet
Scarlet lady
A primal urge to wear primary red
Winners by a neck
While some clothes cost money, effort is free
How to hunt properly
A shooting career should start without a gun
Hits and misses
Wine made by pop stars, actors and cricketers
Art for cash’s sake
How to buy and sell at a profit
Slain Jane
Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality
Bricks and mortarboards
An architect who makes a virtue of the laconic
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
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves