Issue: May 2021
The Lost Bohemians
Arabella Byrne asks if the modern world still has room for artistic outlaws
We’re all in the pink
Christopher Pincher celebrates the return of warm summer nights with a taste of Provence — and the finest rosé in the world
All shall have prizes
There are now so many awards that not winning one must seem a source of shame
Friggitelli with Rosie
Lisa Hilton falls for the rustic charms and continental cuisine of a perfect English pub
Invisible men
Black intellectuals who refuse to subscribe to the liberal consensus on race have been belittled, insulted and ignored by a predominantly white left wing elite
The case against climate change
Campaigners are using the courts to challenge states and utilities on greenhouse gases
Spring into a dress
Hannah Betts welcomes the new season by going “glasual”
Tangled up in the myth of Dylan
Age hasn’t withered Dylan. He was always running towards it, arms open wide.
The making of a maelstrom
How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain
Shock of the new
Thomas Woodham-Smith frets about how to handle real, live customers
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
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?