Issue: November 2022
Time for a U-turn on “B Corps”?
It’s the business of companies to make money first and think about society later
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
A colossus unjustly ignored
Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Doctor in a spin
West End zingers on stage now
Monarchs of the fen
Stalking muntjac and fallow deer in Lincolnshire
Don’t trust Trussonomics
There’s nothing anti-growth about sound money and strong public finances
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
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?