Issue: October 2024
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
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 case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place