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- Edition 73 – May 2025 – Cover + Contents
- ‘Labour Offers No Clear Narrative’: In the Shark-Infested Waters of Politics, Reform Is Circling
- A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water?
- The Elixir of Life Is In Danger
- ‘We Have Utterly Decimated Our Rivers’
- ‘The Wider Issues the Riots Were a Symptom of Must Remain on the Political Agenda’
- ‘To Imagine That A River Is Alive Causes Water to Glitter Differently’
- Adolescence May Have Created a ‘Cultural Moment’ But Our Conversations About Misogyny and Masculinity Are Missing the Mark
- Ecosystem Engineers: Welcoming Back Our Beavers
- Cultural Crisis: Why Can’t We Talk About the Water We Swim In?
- Editorial – The Need to Be Seen
- ‘There May Not Be Any Institutions Left to Rebuild – the Democrats Need to Project Confidence and Keep Fighting’
- Myth of the Month – Mr. Pink
- Do the Democrats Need Their Own Joe Rogan – Or Just a Compelling Argument?
- News In Brief – Niet Zero
- The Upside Down – Old Nick’s Game
- Editorial information
- The Silent Violence of Trump’s Second Term
- Peter Oborne's Diary – The Sycophants
- Being Braver Than We Want To Be
- Political Musings – Spring is Here
- On The Ground – Royal Flush
- High Court Case Brought Against Dan Wootton Over ‘Catfishing’
- Bad Press Awards – Janet Daley Scoops the Leopard Print Ribbon for Tragically Late Epiphanies
- Political Culture – Trump’s Tariffs: Starmer’s Moment of Danger and Opportunity
- Mandrake – Hacking Away
- ‘Turning A Blind Eye to Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to the Trump-Putin Axis’
- Blue Labour in the ‘MAGA Square’
- Keir Starmer’s ‘Elbows Down’ Approach to Power Is Winning Over His Enemies and Alienating His Voters
- Political Economy – Trump's Tariffs: The World's 'Liz Truss Moment'
- Notes on Now – An Absent Establishment
- ‘How Rapidly the Labour Government Has Been Disowned by the Liberal Left is Self-Indulgent and Irresponsible’
- ‘Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
- From Grief To Grievance
- ‘This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’
- ‘Two-Tier’ Justice Or Two-Tier Punditry?
- ‘Legitimate Concerns’ and Root Causes: Have Lessons Been Learned From Last Summer's Riots?
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The Upside Down – Old Nick’s Game
John Mitchinson considers whether theDevil still has some lessons to teach us Perhaps it’s the times we’re living through, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the Devil of late. I’ve always been intrigued by the number of times the Devil appears in English place names: once you start to notice, Old Nick appears everywhere. […]
The Silent Violence of Trump’s Second Term
A climate of authoritarian fear and intimidation is reaching into all parts of public and political life in the United States in 2025, writes CJ Werleman