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- Edition 79 – November 2025 – Cover + Contents
- How the Alt-Right Gets In
- ‘America Must Save Britain’
- Shami Chakrabarti:‘We Need a Popular Front Broad Enough to Go From the Left of the Left to Liberal Conservatives’
- ‘The Most Extreme Policies We’ve Had from Any Political Party’
- ‘Calling Reform Racist Doesn’t Work’, Say Unions as Workers Indicate Support for Nigel Farage’s Party
- We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?
- Pilgrimage to Detention: 24 Hours in Israeli Immigration Custody
- Notes on Now – Cruelty
- Tony Harrison Remembered
- Oedipus and the ‘Other’ Within Us All
- Zeitgeisters – Lamorna Ash
- Humanism: The Inhumane Alternative
- Diaspora Dinners: Sago Gula Melaka
- The Upside Down – Fading Fast
- Editorial – Signs of the Time
- Letters – November 2025
- News In Brief – A COSTLY BAN
- Peter Oborne's Diary – The Leper in the Commons
- Bad Press Awards – The Inflatable Boxing Glove for Performative Anger
- On the Ground – Switched Offcom
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 79
- ‘The Integrity Gap: Starmer’s Government Risks Building the Authoritarian Future We Fear’
- Free Speech and the Opportunistic Deceit of the Right
- ‘The Conservative Plan to Leave the ECHR Marks the Crossing of a Rubicon’
- Political Economy: ‘The UK’s Political Class Has No Plausible Alternative to the Old Thatcherite Economic Model’
- Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
- In Absurdia – A Lord’s Purpose
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage
- ‘Thick as Thieves’ Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
- Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why?
- ‘Blue Labour’ & the Thiel Effect
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Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
Disproportionately represented in the House of Lords before last July’s General Election – when they had just 11 MPs in the Commons – the Liberal Democrats have some making up to do now they have 72 MPs. Leader Ed Davey does not, however, appear spoilt for choice when it comes to finding suitable candidates for the upper chamber.
Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage
My occasional encounters with former or serving intelligence officers over the years suggest that they are prone to talking in riddles. But the sixtysomething greybeard I met late in 2016, when I was researching my Second World War spy book, A Woman of No Importance, spoke all too plainly.