Subscribe

from only £18.95 for six issues

Issue: May 2019

The voting tightrope
Rather than quoting Lord of the Flies, when asked by journalists as to the political temperature in Parliament, I shall only say "I am Spartacus"
Robert Halfon

How Australia became Italy with crocodiles
The country is orderly, prosperous and well-governed, but poisonous infighting has resulted in a chaotic prime ministerial merry-go-round
Helen Dale

All boys together in Pinterworld
A new production of Betrayal reminds us of the playwright’s insights into male relationships
Anne McElvoy

YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit
A furry farewell
Michael Prodger

The plant cure
Botany isn’t about the whimsical world of flower fairies, but clever, entrepreneurial plants that learn to deceive, or which can survive in habitats where no one wants them
Isabel Hardman

Tearing down the culture temples
British arts venues want to become bastions of “inclusivity” at the expense of connoisseurship
Alexander Adams

A brush with painting’s history
The restoration of great works of art is increasingly being carried out in public before an admiring audience
Michael Prodger

Norsemen of the apocalypse
Kierkegaard's spirit has never been laid to rest. He is the philosopher of angst and dread: the conscience-stricken companion of modern consciousness
Daniel Johnson

Cold comfort for farmers
A full Brexit would give the UK an opportunity to re-set our relationship with the land and the seas — if the current impasse is resolved so that we are no longer bound by CAP
Jamie Blackett

A book you can safely pass over
The radical Jewdas Haggadah provides a rag-week version of the Passover ceremony for pubescent Marxists
Maureen Lipman

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
Search