Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
Studio: Victorian graveyards in London
The Magnificent Seven: a testament to the eclectic pomp and sometime mawkish piety of Victorian good taste
Studio: The English Baroque
Great architecture emerges as much from tension as coherence
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
Studio: UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
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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
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone