Issue: October 2022
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Schools are using teaching material provided by opaque consultancies pushing fringe views on sex and race
Clothes maketh not an Iron Lady
Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
How Britain fell out of love with Boris
The story of a shy extrovert, an unprincipled believer, a depressive funster
Ducking for cover
Tweed breeks, secret shoots and searching for lapwings
Reign stops play
Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather
Elizabeth the Good
We shall not see her like again
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
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations