Issue: May 2020
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Wildest dreamland
It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom
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
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
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
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting