Issue: October 2020
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
A quick exit…
Our way of death has become increasingly mawkish. Far better to opt for a swift cremation, without frills or power ballads
Wagner, restless provocateur
Wagner’s sexual ambiguity spoke to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Mann, says Norman Lebrecht
Womxn and non-womxn
By changing the way that people speak, we will be able to fix all the bad thoughts that exist inside people’s heads
Unmasking of a libertine lord
With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Bred to be killed
The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation
The real facts of life
A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion
Five go mad for fish and chips
Lisa Hilton enjoys a seaside hike, a bracing swim and lashings of warming tea in West Sussex
From major to minor
Who’s minor and who’s major reveal the power of collective prejudice
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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act it still being opposed and undermined
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender