The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
Remotely wishing you a Merry Christmas
Woefully out of touch and with falling congregations, the Church of England faces a crisis of leadership and theology
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
Rooms with a view
Will the law protect owners of high-rise flats from happy-snapping tourists?
Misogyny by any other name
When the overwhelming majority of individuals are horrifically abused, as in the sex trade, we typically call for such industries to be abolished
Did women in academia cause wokeness?
More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate
Why we need Christmas
Our need of the Nativity of our Lord has not decreased as the centuries have passed
Knit picking
The invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass
May it please the court
Our elected representatives may finally wrest power back from the lawyers
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Good COP, bad COP
Why would our friends even want to give us Covid?
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever