Issue: November 2019
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
Switchboard is busy
An untruth exposed
Moronic inferno
An anonymous academic on campus follies
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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution