Issue: March 2025
Battling the bullshitters
Why be a loser when others are winning by spewing nonsense?
Bingham’s failed revolution
Why the supposed “rule of law” now protects the offender rather than the law-abiding citizen
Georgia on my mind
Georgia is growing in crediblitiy as a rugby power
The clock ticks ever louder
The Tory excuse of wait-and-see on the performance of their leader is already wearing thin
We should hail the cab-rank rule
The principle that barristers should accept any brief is all too easily sidestepped
This earthy opera is a real sob story
I have seen seven different productions of Jenůfa and I never fail to be overcome
VAR is a blight on the Premier League
A blight on the Premier League
The end of the news
The appetite for all journalism wanes
The slow, inexorable death of television news
Traditional broadcasters find themselves adrift in a radically different twenty-first century
How the press has changed
A new, faster and less deferential media is springing up to replace the old guard
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
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham