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Issue: September 2016

The Nelson Touch
"In her first two months on the bridge, Theresa May has skilfully steered the ship of state away from hazardous Continental rocks and into the open sea"
Daniel Johnson

Summer Salvoes
"Theresa May’s safe pair of hands seems a great blessing after the vacuum Cameron and Osborne left us in"
Douglas Murray

Bad King Wenceslas
"Jean-Claude Juncker is not the first Luxembourger to imagine he can dictate the future of Europe"
David Abulafia

Party Crashers
"It’s my Labour Party, Mr Corbyn, and I’ll cry if I want to"
Maureen Lipman

Friedman’s Fancy
"Friedman’s “helicopter money” was designed as a thought experiment to stimulate the imagination — not the real British economy. He was joking"
Tim Congdon

Do Svidaniya, Olga!
The hearty icons of Soviet womanhood have vanished
Heidi Kingstone

Jolly Jack
J.B. Priestley was known to the public as as a grumpy old man, but that was just a mask
Marigold Johnson

Poetry Prospers
The anthology Hwaet! proves poetry is alive and thriving at the Ledbury Poetry Festival
Mark Fisher

Intersectionality
The Black Lives Matter movement recently disrupted traffic in the UK — but to what avail?
Tycho Johnson

Debunking the EU Referendum Myths
Several major misconceptions about how Brexit came about have taken hold. Here is why they are wrong — and what really happened
Michael Mosbacher and Oliver Wiseman

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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