Issue: May 2022
Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour
It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
The diary of Dilyn the dog
Just us. For years and years
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
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate