Issue: November 2023
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
California dreaming
Is there strife in the Sunak household?
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
The cathedral and the museum
With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common
Britain, a goner with the wind
The dash for wind energy is a generational folly that will see the nation’s economic future sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero
The road to Wigan’s tears
The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe
Time to outlaw the Tories
The public cannot be trusted to vote properly
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
Lewis the prophet
The Narnia author deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage
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
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?