Issue: November 2024
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
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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
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.