Issue: October 2022
Oh! What a circus
The mistake of choosing the wrong school
Man of the match
Christian Erikson: resurrection man
The three circles of hell
Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
In with the It crowd
International glamour and the comforts of home
Could do better
Football fans remember the rubbish as much as the football
Red in tooth and claw
Tartare is the ultimate carnivore’s recipe
Indyref2: yes or no?
The Supreme Court must rule on Nicola Sturgeon’s bid for a second referendum
King Charles’s ruthless revenge
Whilst the traitors are swiftly rounded up and dispatched, a handful remain at large
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
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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
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
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While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state