Issue: May 2026
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
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 trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration