Issue: November 2025
Anti-smoking own goals
Puritan anti-nicotine policies are successful only in propping up the tobacco industry
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
On Eddy’s goat tails
If anyone can outshine Merckx, Tadej can
No-crime hate
Investigation of so-called “hate incidents” has been revealed as a colossal waste of police time
Who can heal sick Britain?
It is no longer fanciful to speak of a lost generation of growth and opportunity
Nigel: Who didn’t admire Putin?
Rob has another rifle through Peston’s Inbox
Porn is degrading society
Standing out in a saturated market means ever more extreme content
This century’s Great Composers
Hidden masterminds may yet revive the species
Mustn’t grumble
The dog-in-the-manger outlook still persists in Tottenham
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
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear