Issue: November 2020
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
Grousing more
Patrick Galbraith says the rural vote is up for grabs
A miserable specimen
The Natural History Museum seems to have lost faith in the ability of children to understand new concepts and facts
Feminists must reject left and right
Louise Perry believes the old political labels are irrelevant for feminists
Northerly winds of change
Graham Stewart visits Orkney and the Shetlands to find the islanders keen on independence — from Scotland
Past imperfectionists
The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers
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
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect