Issue: September 2020
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias
Why non-racist whites are racist
Titania McGrath’s take on a thrilling year for racial equality
The campus grievance industry
An illiberal network of activists and quangos threatens our cherished academic freedom
The Whitehall rot sets in
This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered
The anti-Corbyn plot that never was
John Ware looks at the hard facts behind Momentum’s claims of centrist betrayal
The day I was cancelled
A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob
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
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
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?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to