Issue: November 2024
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
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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
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale