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Issue: May 2017
Envoy Sans Pareil
The ambassador of ill-repute, Prince Talleyrand
Jeremy Jennings
Counterpoints
Jacks High
In the event that Scotland leaves the Union, we need a cunning plan if we are to retain the UK's flag
Joshua Gelernter
Counterpoints
War On Waugh
Have we become so humourless that we've stopped finding Evelyn Waugh funny?
Constance Watson
Counterpoints
Mrs May’s Sense Of Direction
"Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election — just before
Standpoint
went to press — will surely come to be seen as a stroke of genius."
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Brexit Deferred, Labour Saved
‘By calling an election three years before it was scheduled, Theresa May has delayed Brexit and saved Labour and the Liberal Democrats’
Michael Mosbacher
Politics
The BBC Vs. The Market
‘Addled thinking about the BBC’s status seems to be characteristic of leafy-suburb leftism’
Tim Congdon
Marketplace
The “B” Word
‘Is it too much to suggest that political wisdom may be quite evenly distributed through the population — even among the poor?’
Noel Malcolm
Open Season
Overreaching Outrage
‘Society’s rewarding of outrage means we are ever less-inclined to give people what we used to call “the benefit of the doubt”’
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
South Bank Oberon
The memoir of the National Theatre's former artistic director is absorbing, insouciant and amusing
Anne McElvoy
Counterpoints
A Sense Of Englishness
Eric Ravilious and Henry Moore
Michael Prodger
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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