Issue: October 2022
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
Philip Larkin: the man who was always right
The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world
Studio: Victorian graveyards in London
The Magnificent Seven: a testament to the eclectic pomp and sometime mawkish piety of Victorian good taste
Biting the hand that feeds them
So-called “radical” performance art is little more than a publicly-funded alliance between the art establishment and faux-rebellious poseurs
Pregnant people
Can we not call women women?
An overdone “emergency”
The effects of soaring gas prices on inflation are likely to be transitory
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
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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
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it