Issue: October 2020
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
The Keynesian comeback
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
Covid and stogies on the campaign trail
A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
October 2020: Letters to the Editor
Damned by his own words
Braving the goblet of fire
Nick Cohen salutes J.K. Rowling, whose latest work reflects her burning sense of justice and refusal to take the easy route
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
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.