Issue: September 2020
Dancing into Fall
Hannah Betts selects a fabulous, gloom-defying autumn wardrobe
Track rate
Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
The courage to defeat Evil
Why are people fighting a long-dead slave trade rather than resisting the triumph of a real one?
American nightmare
Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it
Bullfighting à la mode
Christopher North says French aficionados are more demanding than the Spanish
Bad taste of PC foodies
Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson
Dr Green’s Dictionary: Diversity
Diversity is our strength? Or has history shown us otherwise?
A crisp House white
Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
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
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment