Issue: October 2023
The diversity trap
Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people
Letters for October
Housing, festivals, intellectuals and X
Mostra del Cinema
Historic heartthrobs, cinematic creeps and secreted shoes
Hellmann’s, humbug and chutzpah
Three cheers for hypocrisy in the Unilever boardroom
How to fix Brexit
A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer
Raped by the IRA
A traumatised victim was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian
Don’t give a Voice to racism
A proposed change to the Australian constitution will enshrine inequality in Parliament
Ban this vile “Hate” Parade
Puberty is a form of far-right terrorism
Profile: Pierre Poilievre
The Conservative Party leader’s mantra “Canada is broken” resonates with voters appalled by the gap between their country’s promise and grim reality
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
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
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities