Issue: May 2023
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Why Russia is still in business
Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war
Finding real answers
The inspiring promise of national conservatism
Letters for May
Arson, fraud and a little poetry
A real decolonisation dispute
Nobody has asked the Chagos Islanders if they wish to be independent of Britain
The kids are alt-right
Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement
Adverts: social justice education
Take that patriarchy!
How not to solve a crime
The police’s dilatory response to a minor case exemplifies our national sclerosis
#AwardsSoDiverse
The rise of gender-neutral categories in the show business awards season
As safe as the bank of England?
Blame the Bank for soaring prices, not the working class, the elderly and the sick
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
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd