Issue: May 2022
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
I spy a new clampdown
Will new laws to combat foreign espionage inhibit public interest journalism?
Don’t trust the myths of biology
Being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with tits
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Music monsters
The perverted predators of pop
Before and after gould
Bach’s Goldberg Variations have a rich history that far transcend its modern association with Glenn Gould
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
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
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans