Issue: November 2020
Balm for straitened times
Christopher Pincher offers some bargain whites for our tricky times
Peace in our towns
Fiona Duncan loves the unexpectedly luxurious calm of a city break
Condemned to a life sentence
We treat prisoners of war better than care home residents
Tate Modern in a terrible tangle
Tate Modern gets itself in a terrible tangle over a cancelled show
Kitchen cabinet
Felipe Fernández-Armesto says MPs should pay their dues in the kitchen
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
“Trans”
Dominic Green on the history of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender
TikTok goes the clock
It took me a while but now I really appreciate Amy Winehouse
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
November 2020: Letters to the Editor
Too kind to Trotsky
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 testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh