Issue: November 2025
Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
Will “they” catch on?
Pronouns are far too interesting to be left to trans activists on either side
Cezanne 25 at Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence was Cezanne’s refuge — or as close to one as this troubled, insecure artist could manage
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
Carry on carrying on …
Why the comedy film series should return
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
Why Britain is being framed as the new enemy
Podcasters, amateur historians and America’s populist right have joined the assault
My kitchen confessions
I wasn’t cut out for the life of a chef
Let the code take the academic load
AI has already become a central part of the student experience
Putting the mockers on Ms Rayner
An interview with internet sensation Intel Lady, aka satirist Jenny Stanton
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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
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform