Issue: November 2023
Up with the Times
A fond farewell to the countryman’s bible
Chard: an apology
On the rehabilitation of chardonnay
Constitutional row
On the row over a champion hurdler
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
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
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken