Issue: March 2025
Snapshots of a strong and silent type
Amid brands and trends, how do we identify the good stuff?
Thoughts on a crisis
A vision of a salvageable democracy built squarely on an orthodox account of the supremacy of political institutions
The regime that set the stage for Nazism
The question is not about Weimar, but what went wrong with the Germany that preceded it
Treading the path of enlightenment
The spiritual beauty of Plotinus and unity
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
Called to the bars
Whatever any reader knows about pubs, they will still learn more from this book
The mercurial master of magic and misery
If Dickens was a unique enchanter, Conrad is a charmingly bewitched conjurer of his genius
Priests moving in mysterious ways
The further Denöel gets, the weaker and more credulous he becomes
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
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
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional