November 2019 Issue

FROM THE MAGAZINE

November 2019

‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’

Humor

My morning with Black Lives Matter UK

By the time I was 12, I was listening to Bob Marley while memorizing Dr King

By Godfrey Elfwick

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Low Life

What did the maid make of my penis vacuum pump?

While I was out, she had polished it and positioned it on a glass shelf lit by four spotlights

By Jeremy Clarke

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Faith

Fashion victims: how feminists are betraying Muslim women

In the West, hierarchies of collective privilege and victimhood are more important than individual rights

By Libby Emmons

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Home

Is your home culturally insensitive?

Keep your judgmental hands off my Japanese tea bowls

By Laura Freeman

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Faith

The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach

The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye

By Karol Markowicz

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Diary

How do you make the most ‘quintessentially English’ magazine work in the US?

Launches and liquid lunches in New York and Washington

By Freddy Gray

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Faith

Right-wing jihad

How Republicans became the anti-Islam party

By Tim Stanley

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High Life

Why Roy Cohn is not one of the world’s most evil men

He may have had a gruff exterior but I always thought he was gooey inside

By Taki

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