Gaullism at a crossroads
The French Right faces its old demons and its moment of truth
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
