Issue: October 2024
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
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 underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment