Issue: May 2021
The secret university
Jessica Douglas-Home recalls Roger Scruton’s risky but crucial work with dissident intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc
Not exactly untriggered
Claudia Savage-Gore on the dinner party minefield of Everyone’s Invited
The wilder the party, the bigger the hangover
The post-Covid recovery is set to roar, but will surely bring inflation in its wake
The rule of sixty
Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
Hip-hop with a Weimar vibe
Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view
Graphs
By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate
Rabbit, run
Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun
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
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter