Issue: October 2020

The thirst for power that hides behind diversity

We used to love filling our homes with possessions. Now, less is more — indeed, it’s everything

If she were a man, Lisa HIlton would surely be celebrated as the roving public intellectual she so clearly is

I should have known that expressing the slightest doubt about trial by jury would lead to public opprobrium

Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval

The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up

Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream

Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture

National debate used to be encouraged by the Anglican state — but those days are fast disappearing

Daniel Johnson says Spanish imperialism left a legacy defying simplistic analysis