Issue: November 2025
The neglected nectar of sweet Tokaji wines
Merchants from all over Europe once came to Hungary
I regret choosing a llama-friendly school for Hector
Just meekly approaching Google Classroom burnout …
Hanging my head with pride
There is immense beauty in deer in the field, venison on the plate, and deer heads on the wall
Fabulous in fur
My vegetarianism issues from the same source as my pelt wearing
Enjoying warm hospitality in chilly Aberdeen
Al Fresco smuggles Mediterranean home cooking up to the Silver City on the North Sea
The value of water
A lake dug into low-grade farmland transforms the local ecology
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
The art market is not dying, it’s changing
Weakness at the top need not trickle down to the rest
A rustic restaurant where food trumps hideous decor
Chalet Nuah is not a place for the fat-fearing
Tripe is worth all the laborious preparation
The sagging, slumberous bed of tripe-meat just needs awakening
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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
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact