Issue: October 2024
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
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
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
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?
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways