Issue: November 2020
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Public spending and public health
Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous
Shop these shoppers!
Saintly Sainsburys vs Waitrose’s white supremacists
Preposterous pipedreams
Varoufakis’s new novel, Another Now, is full of incoherent blather between dolts
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Time’s up for licence fee
The BBC must face reality over its future funding
The end of the skin game
Richard D. North charts the rise and fall of the British fur trade
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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
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle