Issue: May 2023
OK Doomer
Why Spengler still matters
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
Toryism à la mode
Could the legacy of French Gaullism breathe life into a listless British conservatism?
Lessons of The Jetsons
The economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark
Natural goodness
Rewilding projects will never grow enough to feed the nation. A new model of nature-friendly farming is a better solution
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Against the neutralisation of harm
Irrational rashers
Vegan bacon is a real horror
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The sweet smell of success
The fragrance that introduces its wearer tastefully and without ostentation
Beware the false victim
History shows the folly of insisting that certain classes of people can do no wrong
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
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws