Love, work and whimsy
MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Who told Boris to make Claire Fox a peer and why?
Johnathan Ball was three years old, Tim Parry was twelve
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Survival of the fittest
Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19
Who backed the backstop?
No one wants to own Boris’s Northern Ireland Protocol
Steady Eddy charts a voyage into the unknown
Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems – but to what purpose?
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
It’ll be Gover by Christmas
Being PM isn’t as easy as Boris looked forward to it being
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Africa’s Covid-19 response has humbled the Western world
Why is it that Africa has seemingly dealt with the coronavirus pandemic better than the rest of the world?