Issue: May 2022
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
Studio: Victorian architecture in Ulster
The undiscovered 19th century wonders of Northern Ireland
Evening Vespas and Gelato alla Gordon’s
When in Florence…
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Going nuts in May
There is no dish that is not improved by hazelnuts
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.
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics