Issue: May 2022
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Are U.S. sports actually superior to ours?
Sport is another thing to confirm the notion of American exceptionalism
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
Pipe down and play up
We need more silence in sport
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
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide