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Issue: March 2019
The woke gent’s guide to blurred lines
The Me Too movement has made relationships with women fraught for men. Just how can you be a decent chap these days?
Lisa Hilton
Features
The way forward for Europe’s great outsider
The UK’s relationship with the Continent has always been fraught. But history shows there is no neat answer to where Britain belongs
R. W. Johnson
Features
Holier than thou: the hypocrisy of the zealot
Corbyn and Trump supporters are more alike than they think: both legitimise hatred in defence of the cause, but dread the enemy within
Nick Cohen
Features
Cull the thinkers whose ideas have tanked
Think-tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs once shaped the political agenda. But their successors have failed on today’s big issues
Richard Cockett
Features
A beginner’s manual to grievance gibberish
The authors of the most successful academic “hoax” of recent years explain just how to persuade learned journals to accept nonsense
Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
Features
Odds against life after the final whistle
Despite the demise of the doyen of British sportswriters, reports of the demise of sports journalism have surely been exaggerated — for now
Robert Low
Features
Shelf life
‘Something in the world of literature we start off reading shows us a world which while sometimes scary is nevertheless still safe’
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
Underrated: Shiva Naipaul
A warm and witty writer with a mordant eye for the bad and the bogus
Andrew Gimson
Underrated
Overrated: Hunter S. Thompson
The high priest of “gonzo” journalism took pride in making stories up — his legacy should be deplored
Oliver Wiseman
Overrated
Steak with the bakers
It is indeed possible to eat well in Scotland
Lisa Hilton
Restaurants
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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