Issue: November 2024
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
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
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran