Issue: May 2022
Fall into the gin trap
Nothing is better than a clean spirit
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Out with the in-crowd
Barely surving a nightmarish camp
May: Letters to the Editor
The campaign to cancel Seeley is grotesque
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart