Issue: May 2026
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
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
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures