Issue: November 2025
Do the Slow Horses stay the course?
Hopefully season five will not end in a creative cul-de-sac
Don’t be down on Poundbury
More spacious, more green and better built than any other suburban development
My denial is your refutation
Infamy, poetry and exhibitionistic vulnerability
Getting back on the right track
It is time to explore the world of right-wing podcasts
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
Entrancing in the dark: Boss biopic
For Springsteen fans, this stuff is all gravy
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
Suffering: the consequences
Dual reflections on on the vicissitudes of victim status
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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
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change