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Issue: April 2019

Overrated: Harry Potter
The bland, humourless and one-dimensional boy wizard pales against his more interesting friends
Madeline Grant

From old bore to sex god
"While priding himself on declaring that he knew nothing, the one topic Socrates was prepared to concede expertise in was love"
Hannah Betts

Why dog meat matters
The sickness of virtue-signalling is not confined to the woke Left, but has taken hold of our body politic as a whole
Michael Mosbacher

Underrated: William Brown
The hero of the Just William books promotes free speech and debunks communism
Harry Phibbs

Where have all the people gone?
Hot and crowded. That is the conventional wisdom on what Planet Earth will be like in the not-so-distant future. But the related question of how many of us there will be in 50 or 100 years matters too
Oliver Wiseman

Preserved in aspic
Delving into a record of postwar family meals
Boadicea Meath Baker

Not too many happy returns
Calls for restitution of artworks taken during the colonial era are intensifying around the world
Michael Prodger

From Gandhi to Grandi
"In a savage and subtle critique of historical self-regard, Robert Crowcroft brilliantly sums up the problem with Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy"
Christopher Montgomery

The books I wish I’d never read
"This was the great discovery: that books could let you in to places of danger. Perhaps inevitably this included places you regretted having gone"
Douglas Murray

Spoiled for choice
Joshua Harmon’s new play about the struggle to get into top American universities could not be more timely
Anne McElvoy

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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