Issue: November 2023
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
The gang of four
Remembering a classic British race
Havana splendid time
On the joy of cigar smoking
Israel at war: but where will it end?
Hamas knew its unprecedented attack would provoke ferocious retaliation and hopes the violence spreads
God is in the details even of secular history
The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion
Orbán: guardian of liberal freedoms
Rod Dreher argues the west’s Orbán hysteria is absurd and that hungary is safe, civilised and democratic
Better than evil
Israel has a duty to be better than its enemies
Playing nice hasn’t worked
Even when I keep quiet about being cancelled, the censors don’t invite me back
November Letters
War, Brexit, Truss and an idea for new merchandise
Who rules: judges or parliament
A domestic bill of rights is not necessarily the panacea its adherents intend it to be
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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.