Politics

Biden uses the gilded cage of the White House to his advantage

It isn’t a basement, but it’ll do

Grace Curley

Plus: State Dept hires DEI guru & celeb chef’s team dies in Gaza

Who thinks Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump?

Plus: State Dept hires DEI guru & celeb chef’s team dies in Gaza

Education

How the British look at the world

The ingrained habit of proving that they are worthy of a first has shaped the style of many British journalists

Yascha Mounk

Internet

Trump falsely accuses judge’s daughter

A new Twitter account was created in 2023 using Loren Merchan’s old handle

Jacqueline Sweet

Religion

Is a Christian revival underway?

As a believer, I see signs that Christ is moving in the minds and hearts of secular intellectuals

Justin Brierley

Business

How game ranching protects endangered species

It’s been a boon for conservation

Geoff Hill

The Wire

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Next Wave

Exhibitions

My quest to find love at the British Museum

I spotted a lissom blonde in green T-shirt and tie-dye trousers. We fell in step as we approached the gift shop

Harry Mount

Religion

Is a Christian revival underway?

As a believer, I see signs that Christ is moving in the minds and hearts of secular intellectuals

Justin Brierley

Health

Finding joy at a ‘happiness summit’

The happiness business is just the newest incarnation of a decades-old western addiction to self-care

Max Jeffery

Politics

Biden uses the gilded cage of the White House to his advantage

It isn’t a basement, but it’ll do

Grace Curley

Book Review

Where is the clarity in modern center-right foreign policy?

Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right

Ben Domenech

May Edition

Television

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you can never quite get enough of shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

Music

Aaron Lewis tells it like he sees it

An interview with the country music singer

Amber Duke

Film

Stormy depicts porn star heroism

The documentary is loaded with cameos from celebrities, commentary from liberal pundits… and scenes from Daniels’s striptease act

Cockburn

Media

The UAE bid for The Spectator is finished

Britain’s 300-year-old tradition of a free press is set to carry on for some time yet

Fraser Nelson

Politics

The next Senate GOP leader won’t be super-rich. That’s a good thing

Johns Cornyn and Thune represent not just a generational shift, but a shift in the nature of the leadership

Ben Domenech

Charlie Gammell

Arts & Leisure

Finding joy at a ‘happiness summit’

The happiness business is just the newest incarnation of a decades-old western addiction to self-care

Max Jeffery

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

The Regime is bad eastern European pastiche

It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics

Will Collins

Washington D.C.

A French symposium

Just as night watchmen are constrained by duty to make their rounds, so are writers about wine

Roger Kimball

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you can never quite get enough of shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

Aaron Lewis tells it like he sees it

An interview with the country music singer

Amber Duke

Stormy depicts porn star heroism

The documentary is loaded with cameos from celebrities, commentary from liberal pundits… and scenes from Daniels’s striptease act

Cockburn

Culture

Revisiting Kurt Cobain, three decades after his death

Why are we still so fascinated with the grunge icon?

Christopher Sandford

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

Entertainment

Carys Davies’s Clear is austere yet not passionless

She manages to pack in more drama and nuance into 160 pages than other authors manage in novels twice that length

Alex Peake-Tomkinson

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole

The Gentlemen: tons of torture and cocaine

If you like shotguns, stately homes and rival gangs, this show is for you

James Delingpole