Issue: October 2022
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Head boy and head-scratchers
Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
No common or garden sculptor
Canova’s influence on cultural heritage should not be overlooked
100 per cent marvellous
Enjoying a simple but stylish lunch at the Polizzi Collection’s latest hotel in East Sussex
No country for old men
Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
A flawed blueprint for the Left
How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?
Films for free
The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture
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
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture