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Issue: July/August 2018

Trump, Merkel and Brexit
"At the time of writing it is Mrs Merkel, rather than Mr Trump, whose authority is falling away"
Daniel Johnson

Bloody scandal
In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
Blanche Girouard

Tsar’s last huzzah
One hundred years ago, Edwardian England unwittingly hosted both the Romanovs and their future killers
Frances Welch

An American Turner?
The National Gallery exhibition shows that Thomas Cole, like Turner and John Martin, was a visionary and a pictorial dramatist
Jacob Willer

Past imperfect
"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"
Frederic Raphael

The graveyard of communism
"Before many more decades are out these mementos will follow the ideology they so fervently sought to commemorate"
Douglas Murray

What would it take to derail Brexit?
‘Theresa May is committed to implementing Brexit, believing that any reversal of this policy would destroy the Conservative Party once and for all’
Michael Mosbacher

Indifference to intolerance
‘In effect, Waltham Forest Council has colluded in sectarianism for the sake of a quiet life’
Charlotte Littlewood

Irish realities
‘A new book on Brexit illustrates our great problem with Ireland: our ignorance of its self-pity’
Christopher Montgomery

Refugees are big business for the UN
In Nairobi, there is resentment that asylum-seekers are treated better than local people
Heidi Kingstone

An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar

An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
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