How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Plains of plenty
The Masai Mara has defied gloomy predictions of decline and still supports a thriving ecosystem as rich as it ever was
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
The Brexit boost for British bio-science
World-class laboratories have been freed from the dead hand of Brussels regulation
The plot against fracking
How cheap energy was killed by Green lies and Russian propaganda
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions