Issue: November 2024
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
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
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed