Issue: May 2020
Besieged by abundance
Enliven dull staples with fresh vegetables says Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Left on the rail
Hannah Betts frets about a fashion industry in pandemic deep freeze
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Sins of omission
Taking statistics out of context is a dangerous games, says Theodore Dalrymple
Green shoots
Hephzibah Anderson heads for the allotment
Opening gambits
Christopher North witnesses the start of the bullfighting season
Another country
Fiona Duncan’s post-Covid-19 hotel wish list
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
We have been here before
A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile
Online drama can be a hit
Some of the shortcomings of the theatre turn to benefits in digital translation
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
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent