Issue: October 2024
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
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
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at