Issue: October 2020
Hell on wheels
Tom Chesshyre endures some mercifully brief encounters
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
Editors deserve more credit
Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation
Pick of the plazas
Christopher North advises on the best bullrings for budding aficionados
A playwright who aims big
Anne McElvoy on writers and players who can transfer skills to the small screen from the big stage
Travelling tight
Christopher Pincher enjoys the wine list at the Travellers Club
Scrapping for space
Nick Cohen says hamfisted Covid road closures are dividing opinion
The new F-word
Hannah Betts on the latest bête noire for Generation Z
The great indoors
Don’t scoff at the fad for houseplants says Hephzibah Anderson
Loved Bond, hated Billie
A good Bond song should include swooning strings, stabbing horns and a chorus the size of the moon, explains Sarah Ditum
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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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons