Men of the cloth
Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket