Issue: October 2021
Man and myth
This well-researched book deserves attention for those who wish to peer beyond the carefully cultivated image of Josip Broz Tito
Eat, pray, hate
Claudia Savage-Gore threatens to call the divorce lawyers
Studio: Dubrovnik
Anthony Daniels visits the War Photo Limited gallery in Dubrovnik
Santa’s unspeakable sack
Why are publishers so sniffy about stocking fillers?
Failing Black history
Attempts to “decolonise” school history ignore academic rigour in favour of mere tokenism
Study in prejudice
Richard Ingrams’ “roughing up” of G. K. Chesterton begs the question: who is creating a smokescreen around whom?
Clash of empires
Was Yorktown really a triumph more significant than Nelson’s at Trafalgar?
Truly global view of World War II
Richard Overy has done a signal service with this compellingly written, impressively researched book
Incel inside
The Russians assume we use Opera to project state power, I assure them that the government hate the arts
The classroom culture war
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time
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
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers