Issue: November 2025
Strong, silent — but still box office gold
Clint Eastwood is as much a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon
From Celtic fringe to Bible belt
Forcing the reader to slow down and sink in deeper
Nun gives new opera mass appeal
Heggie’s secret in Dead Man Walking is that operatic music doesn’t actually have to be much good
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
Time to start a new chapter
The rapid decline of reading should set alarm bells ringing at the Ministry of Education
The folly of turning our backs to the sea
Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has left many coastal towns impoverished
Maker’s dozen
The buildings that forged Christian communities still powerfully impact them
Hurrah for corporate affairs
Workplace romances aren’t always about power imbalances and exploitation
Goethe, a man of ideas
Even to list the academic fields in which he was a pioneer is exhausting
Renewing culture for the Right
Why should the culture sector should still be in thrall to the left?
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
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind