A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Life is a leadership election
Eternal recurrence on a three-line whip
Album of the Year: 2021
2021 has yielded more memorable albums than you can count on the fingers of two hands
Malcolm Arnold: A centenary celebration (Somm)
Orchestras should be ashamed of their aversion to the composer
The suicide bomber and me
A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death
Where’s the future?
Rishi Sunak’s budget is taking us back to the 1970s, but with none of the fun
Boris must go – but that won’t solve the problem
The Tories are sailing into a storm
My Body: a lesson in self-awareness
It would be easy to deride Emily Ratajowski as a hypocrite, but there is something deeper underneath her famous looks
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
The sweet taste of freedom
The ECHR has ruled against reopening the “gay cake” case