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Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
Supreme maestro
Watching Lord Pannick QC addressing 11 justices of the Supreme Court is like watching one of the great maestros conducting a symphony orchestra
The real tragedy of Ayers Rock
The ban on climbing Australia’s most famous landmark will do nothing to help the Aborigines it purports to protect
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
Welcome to The Critic
The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
