Issue: November 2024
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
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
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions