Issue: May 2020
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Midnight spice
Christopher Pincher is thankful for the South Australian vineyards
A real show-stopper
Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home
Home-school Hell
Claudia Savage-Gore is locked down with lesson plans, three kids – and no cleaner
The deer hunter
Patrick Galbraith tries to bag a muntjac
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
#MeToo’s lying stooges
I believe all women except the ones accusing Biden
Artemisia will be worth the wait
A unique art exhibition awaits an audience
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
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
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport