Issue: November 2019
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
Whose side is Tulsi Gabbard on?
A pro-Assad, anti-war presidential candidate unsettles her Democratic rivals
The man who wasn’t there
James Kirkup reviews David Cameron’s memoirs
A constant search for heroes
Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
The local food revival
Felipe Fernández-Armesto rejoices in the pleasures and comforts of traditional food
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
The frock du jour
Joining the dots in search of the The Dress
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
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act it still being opposed and undermined
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved