May 2023

Issue

Cover Story

Legacy of empire

Sydney Nash

It’s time for a reckoning with our colonial past

Letter from the editors

Rowan Pelling

& Peter Phelps

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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People

THE INTERVIEW

Anas Sarwar

Gavin Esler talks to the leader of the Scottish Labour Party about the weaponisation of identity politics, and the fall of the SNP

“Identity is used as a way of dividing and putting people into camps”

REPUTATIONS

Nell Gwyn

The low-born actress whose wit seduced a king

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The Surveys

Featured Survey

Are we on the brink of WWIII?

Russia ramps up the threat of nuclear conflict

Do you think the UK should send troops to Ukraine should it become necessary?

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No59%

59%

Don’t know6%

Surveys

SNP in crisis

Is the dream of independence over?

Surveys

MPs for hire

Should parliamentarians stick to the day job?

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Are you sitting comfortably?

When flying isn’t all plane sailing

Surveys

We’re all going on a summer holiday

Or will it be just another shitty staycation?

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Culture

The author Interview

Helen Brown

Luke Jennings

The author of the Killing Eve books discusses his new novel Panic

“I believe men and women, old and young have more in common than most people like to think”

The author Interview

Luke Jennings

The author of the Killing Eve books discusses his new novel Panic

“I believe men and women, old and young have more in common than most people like to think”

Art

Images of Britishness

Max Lunn

Feature

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

Music

The Fairy Queen of modern folk

Will Stubbs

Books

Latest reviews

Perspective Magazine

Reviews by Mic Wright, Louisa Young, Wade Graham and Sam Fowles

Style

Reviews by Mic Wright, Louisa Young, Wade Graham and Sam Fowles

Style

Seeking one stylish spring coat

Christobel Kent

Music

The Fairy Queen of modern folk

Will Stubbs

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Life

Letter from Elsewhere

Living off grid

Swapping reporting from war zones for a life fighting fires in Portugal’s wildest region

Feature, life

Alas, poor Yorick

Sally Connolly

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

Tech Talk

Dystopia myopia

Mic Wright

Almanac

The darling buds

Andreas Kornevall

Food

Great Eggspectations

Lydia Brownlow

Sport

Bowled over and caught out

Robert Rigby

Mind Over Matter

A personality change and a foot fetish

Dr Ash Ranpura

Q&A

Rosie Holt

Perspective Magazine

Comedian and actress

Almanac

The darling buds

Andreas Kornevall

Sport

Bowled over and caught out

Robert Rigby

Q&A

Rosie Holt

Perspective Magazine

Comedian and actress

Feature, life

Alas, poor Yorick

Sally Connolly

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

Tech Talk

Dystopia myopia

Mic Wright

Feature

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

Food

Great Eggspectations

Lydia Brownlow

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