Issue: October 2021
City of pricks
London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets
October 2021: Letters to the Editor
The only people I have seen trying to eliminate biological sex are third-wave feminists
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Low panic at high table
The Christ Church coup attempt is fast morphing into a much darker fiasco
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
Advocates who brook no dissent
Narcissistic identity politics perpetuates that other people are dangerous things that require controlling by activists who “get it”
Star power in a parallel universe
West End openings of Constellations and Cinderella offer stage-starved audiences some magic
Lessons from life
How the facts of Hannah Arendt’s life read like fiction
9/11 confidential
This 9/11 documentary gained extraordinary access to the key decision makers, deploying the material with skill and confidence
History hasn’t ended
Francis Fukuyama got it very wrong
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
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience