Real life seems distant now
Marooned by the pandemic, a war reporter looks for silver linings
Fighting persecution with prayer
Egypt’s ancient Christian people remain second-class citizens despite President Sisi’s pledge to protect them
Don’t shut our churches again
The Church is the only place we can find true deliverance from Covid
More freedom, less information
The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy
My amendment achieved its aim
greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers
Parliament’s Dragon’s Den
The former inaugural chair of Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee recalls its first ever meeting
The invention of the Trump-Russia conspiracy
New revelations implicate Hillary Clinton, Russian spies, and a British muckraker
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
Lukashenko clings on
Belarusian protestors are a more potent weapon against Lukashenko than Brussels ever has been