Issue: November 2025
What farmers want
What the next government can do to win back the trust of agriculture
Cutting the silken threads
A new think tank can help a future Reform government escape the ties that paralyse Britain
Stay cool, Mr Trump
The US need not fear losing influence in the Middle East to Moscow or Beijing
Michael Wharton: satirist of genius
A satirist of genius who mercilessly mocked the modern world
A fetish that spawned a murder
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the first pornography-driven political killing
Gaza betrays LGBTQ+ allies
Over boosting Trump in the polls, most Palestinians would prefer the bombs
Money is free speech
Coined freedom seems an eminently good way of describing currency
Don’t keep it in the family
The disturbing genetic risks of first-cousin marriage
Four divided by two
After nearly 25 years (and more than half my life), I can do what I like
End the fiction of fiscal rules
We need more honesty in Westminster policy making
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
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action