Issue: May 2025
Let’s be real about Ukraine
Britain and its allies should be wholly realistic about what they are truly prepared to do
Enter stage right
Our new theatre critic promises to be fair and unmoved by doctrinaire groupthink
A fork in the road
Badenoch seems to think she can coast to victory because Labour are every bit as hapless
Jenrick: the Tories’ saviour
It’s time the Conservative Party admitted its mistake and elected a new leader
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
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf