Issue: March 2025
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat
A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state
This show has said it all before
Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy
Stormy weather at the climate talks
Werner Herzog shows the delegates the stars above the rainforest
Save the Prince Charles cinema!
It’s shabby, but we should embrace that
Bane sailing
There’s got to be some sort of price to pay for being so fabulous
Play Misty for me
Father John Misty has faked his way into a kind of blazing honesty
The irresistible rise of the lolcows
Why are British political podcasts dominated by failed politicians and establishment journalists?
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
Mean Mr Sheen’s jibe
Held up as a paragon of virtue, he reassuringly confirms he remains as catty as the rest of us
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
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
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement