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Issue: March 2020
Labour plays the blues
Restoring the party’s working-class roots means battling Boris Johnson—and the tide of history
Leaf Arbuthnot
Features
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Hew Strachan
Features
Extremism gives us little reason to laugh
Woke politics offers conservative satirists an easy target, but the results neither sparkle nor shock
Nick Cohen
Features
India’s traitor-talk fires up the resistance
Nabanita Sircar
Features
UK should wrong-foot Scottish ultras
Delaying another independence referendum may prove fatal. Better for No. 10 to lance the boil now and re-think the Union
Colin Kidd
Features
Nato—time to wake up or shut down
Faced with a resurgent and objectionable Russia, and a transactional US, Nato must urgently transform for the new age
Richard Barrons
Features
A farce eclipses a crime
Republicans exploited historical ignorance to kill impeachment
Philip Bobbitt
Dispatches
New poetry
"Reader, there never was a choice. The air between these pages is sucked out each time we watch her go"
Tabitha Hayward
Poetry
Letters: confronting antisemitism; trans athletes; immigration and the hostile environment
Frederic Raphael on antisemitism; why trans women athletes hardly ever win; legal language and immigration
Standpoint Magazine
Letters
Search engine: why Germany’s foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Julian Röpcke
Features
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An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar
Manchester Square
An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin
Books
Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
Books