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Current Affairs

Michael Burleigh

Populism and the pandemic

It’s too early to write off Europe’s far-right, crowd-pleasing politicos

Simon Heffer

Welcome to Peppa Pig World

A rare apology and a spluttering speech have left British politics in a state of flux

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

L’Entente Discordiale

The very uncivilised war of words between France and England

Diana Thomas

Seventies Shades of Brown

We could do worse than return to the decade of ABBA and double-digit inflation

Jonathan Lis

Why we need a British History Museum

It would talk honestly about our past and start to heal old wounds

Hannah Fearn

Short-term thinking: care-less politics?

Balancing complex and divisive policy matters with political risk

Simon Jenkins

Rejoining the Single Market
could still soften Brexit

David Davis

Vaccine passports are both
illiberal and dangerous

Tom Hodgkinson

Antisocial media

It’s hardly news that online platforms are just grubby privateers

Peter Lawlor

Dawn of the cashless dystopia

Inflation will be the final nail in the coffin of cash

Peter Hughes

The language of social collapse

Language is being used to turn against our open societies

Columns

Sonia Sodha

Home Front

Threats to children’s safety and women’s rights, in the UK and the USA

Rowan Pelling

Serendipity

A Sardines snog could get all your demons racing

Nathaniel Tapley

Ephemerant

What in the Dickens is this party? Why Johnson doesn’t cut it as Scrooge

Michael Janofsky

Stateside

Here’s to 2021 and (gulp) the year ahead: Republicans and Democrats have much to think about

Peter Lawlor

On the Money

The genius of Charles Dickens, economic theorist

Peter Phelps

Soapbox

How we respond to refugees’ hopes reflects our moral and political discourse

Perspective Surveys

Arts & Culture

Well Read

Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, by Tracy Borman

Helen Brown talks to Tracy Borman about the revealing, archival nuggets that illuminate her new book

Christobel Kent

Hey big suspender!

The sacred subject of seamed suspenders

Anne Billson

The latest musicality misérables

Why they don’t float my show boat

Boris Starling

Hark the startled herald will sing

A moment that signals Christmas

People

The Interview:
Rowan Williams

Rowan Pelling and Peter Phelps interview Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, about his new collection of poetry, the perils facing refugees and the power of patience and contemplation in forging empathy and bridging divides

Perspective Magazine

Readers’ Rants

What you think of vaccine facts and passports, taxing wealth, mass group-think, state control of the economy and much more

Rowan Pelling

Interview with Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi talks about her upbringing in communist Albania, covered in her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Anne Sebba

Ethel Rosenberg

Reappraising the story of a Lower East Side housewife who was accused of espionage and her part in an all-American Cold War tragedy

Life

Ben McPherson

Letter from Elsewhere

Only Christmas brings cheer to Norway’s brutal winters

Lydia Brownlow

The pleasures and pitfalls of fungi

Marvelling at mushrooms

From my Perspective: Q&As

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith and disability

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks flanker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

From My Perspective

Q&A with Sally Phillips

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