Issue: March 2025
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
The growth imperative
The best way to win back voters is to make them richer by boosting the economy
Novelist, Nobel laureate and Nazi
Which of these three facts is the most important?
On Linden Green
The reverential nature writer
The city that forgot itself
The tortured twentieth-century history of the once cosmopolitan Thessaloniki
Yes, beauty matters. Now what?
How do we address our current artistic crisis and the wearying stalemate of the “culture wars”?
“It’s official”
The British have become a nation of mental serfs
How I became an art collector
An unlikely passion
A memorial fit for a Queen
If something is built in memory of Queen Elizabeth, it must be superlative
How to botch a war
A cluster-bumble of the greatest magnitude
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
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work