Issue: May 2020
A brave voice against the barbarians
David Pryce-Jones recalls a life of literary friendships and the defence of Western civilisation
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
Healing power of outdoors
Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Fear and longing for life after lockdown
This beautiful city has never felt so ugly, with spies everywhere
Real life seems distant now
Marooned by the pandemic, a war reporter looks for silver linings
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
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
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
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
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy